Sentence examples for sizeable obstacle from inspiring English sources

A sizeable obstacle was removed from his path on Thursday when the Col du Galibier climb was taken off the schedule for the 20th stage due to landslides.

Dunfermline, whose points deduction last season contributed to their eventual relegation, have the sizeable obstacle of Rangers to overcome if they are to reclaim an automatic place in the Championship.

For now, there are sizeable obstacles to Republican efforts in the Valley.

Cheung Kong's offering could eat up a lot of the supply.There are still sizeable obstacles to moving yuan in and out of China, however.

Sizeable obstacles, aside from limited industry support, stand in the way of the act's passage – not least a Congress mired in inaction.

This at least offers the chance that, as president, Mr McCain would be able to make bipartisan deals with a Congress that looks certain to be heavily Democratic.But if he is to do the astonishing and win, against the odds and despite the fact that Democratic voters are more fired up than the disconsolate Republicans, Mr McCain still has to surmount some sizeable obstacles.

Visiting all the world's countries wasn't easy: war, revolution and the break-up of the Soviet Union were all sizeable obstacles that extended his mission.

Despite progress in this direction, sizeable obstacles remain, due to lax enforcement of IPR regulations and official mistrust in some government quarters.

For Mr Roche, the Queen's position as head of state not just of the United Kingdom but of 15 other Commonwealth countries, most of them former British colonies, has been a "sizeable psychological obstacle" to the UK's attachment to Europe.

The most sizeable of the obstacles still facing England in the final days of this Six Nations Championship is not a huge secret.

The obstacles were sizeable but he kept his famous cool and with the determination all winners share he transformed that sad drab ossification to its full former glory, and then some.