Sentence examples for threw up obstacles from inspiring English sources

The Ring itself threw up obstacles.

Six months earlier, Rice had appointed neoconservative Elliott Abrams as her Middle East coordinator on the national security council, and he threw up obstacles to prevent the road map from going forward.

Formal merger talks began in 1993, but some union officials said that the negotiations had been stalled for several years, partly because Mr. Shanker, the A.F.T.'s longtime president, threw up obstacles to an accord that would result in his union being subsumed by a larger grouping.

Segregation throws up obstacles to economic investment.

In neighborhoods all over the city, though, concerned citizens began to throw up obstacles.

But there is still this whole extended episode that's bound to throw up obstacles.

Local governments and state enterprises have also taken steps to bolster his support, while throwing up obstacles to his challengers.

Possible legislation to raise the price of carbon emissions and the threat of lawsuits from environmental groups would throw up obstacles too great for more, the argument goes.

For Democrats, the new state laws and rules are just another way to throw up obstacles to try to defeat the Affordable Care Act.

His beloved Chobielin was largely built by Germans.Yet history is bound to throw up obstacles that the most willing patriot cannot quite bring himself to jump.

If Baghdad continues to throw up obstacles, going through the U.N. would line up international support for any eventual American military action.