Sentence examples for self-imposed obstacle from inspiring English sources

As he sees it, the hope for a political messiah is a self-imposed obstacle that stands in the way of Ukraine's success as a nation.

Hagel reportedly urged the White House to clarify its intentions with regard to Assad, which analysts warn is a self-imposed obstacle to building its Syrian proxy force.

Add in that the men vowed to spurn air travel and were sort of making things up as they went along, and you have a delicious, self-imposed obstacle course.

Unsurprisingly, things get more personal, underlining with empathy the self-imposed obstacles men face in addressing their feelings.

It's funny how the threat of impending death makes you realise the pointlessness of self-imposed obstacles.

That makes it all the more important that the United States remove self-imposed obstacles to its influence in Southeast Asia by focusing on an Indonesia seeking to define its own strategic interests and partners.

Some commentators have argued, though, that as a "feminist manifesto" the book over-emphasizes the internal, self-imposed obstacles that individual women must overcome while shortchanging the larger, external barriers that would help make many more women's lives successful.

And the fun of a movie like One Day should be seeing how a couple destined to be together eventually, over two decades, grows together, overcomes their self-imposed obstacles and figures out what the audience has known all along.

Can't the Pam and Jim plotline have a bigger obstacle than self-imposed, weakly enforced secrecy?" TV Guide's Jack Rodgers was glad "the writers aren't jerking us around anymore, and the pair are finally busted when Jim hops a ride home with Pam after work".

Fierce struggles against obstacles that were partly self-imposed: this seemed to be the pattern of Serra's career.

His plan to "bring to book people who squandered the nation's wealth" -- his list includes two former prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif, now in jail, and Benazir Bhutto, who is in self-imposed exile -- "is slow going because of obstacles," he said.