It set up obstacles my character, Harry Bosch, had to overcome".
Validus countersued in August, charging that Transatlantic had set up obstacles to merger negotiations.
In "Survivor" and "Eco-Challenge," Mr. Burnett and his production crew set up obstacles when nature doesn't oblige.
On the political front, however, women's advocates and analysts say that conservative attitudes about women in leadership posts in this Muslim-majority nation and the internal structure of political parties have set up obstacles to women's advancement.
It's also hard not to wonder if the racial conflict in her relationship with Cassius might have been willfully imposed — if she's so uncomfortable with her passions that she must set up obstacles to thwart them.
The settlement, reached in 1999 under the Clinton administration, came after years of complaints and litigation about charges that the Board of Education and the custodians had set up obstacles to women and minority applicants for the jobs.
It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained, those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
Today at a briefing, Col. Steve Gagnon, a Canadian United Nations officer based here to work on planning for the Congo operation, said that he hoped to begin deploying the first troops by July or August, assuming that a cease-fire continues and the government honors its agreement not to set up obstacles.
If you set up obstacles to fragile startups, you are going to be in even more serious trouble.
To investigate the role of visual cues in the collisions of free-flying little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) with stationary objects, we set up obstacles in an area of high bat traffic during swarming.
