Sentence examples for temporary obstacle from inspiring English sources

Here, again, Brundage proved a formidable, if temporary, obstacle.

But it was only a temporary obstacle to industry growth; large ocean liners can comply with the ban by using lighter fuels.

"However, it seems likely that the FTC's demands will only present a temporary obstacle in the path of Facebook's ambitions to collect its users' information.

Founder and CEO David Schrader wouldn't sell when the stock was nearly triple the current $23, and in the past year PSINet has created a temporary obstacle: $3 billion worth of 43 acquisitions worldwide have yet to be digested and debt ballooned to $3 billion.

The point: often faith in oneself prevails over temporary obstacles.

Through those long lean years of Ashes wallopings England fans relied on the small acts of defiance – the individual milestones and small, invariably temporary, obstacles thrown into the path of the Australian juggernaut – to keep themselves sane.

Hopping to Tikrit and Mosul and back to Baghdad today, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld urged American soldiers and their Iraqi allies to regard recent setbacks here as no more than temporary obstacles in the American-led effort to build a new, democratic Iraq.

Temporary obstacles had also been put in place on the street leading up to the upper city.

It's not that irresistible people don't have problems -- even big ones -- but they approach problems as temporary obstacles, not inescapable fate.

Our findings confirmed that these patients interrupted ART for temporary obstacles and most of them never intended to ultimately stop ART.

Aside from some temporary regulatory obstacles, international donor agencies and foundations have uncertainty over the "value added" with an LNG IUS.