Sentence examples for throw obstacles from inspiring English sources

Don't ask for advice and then throw obstacles and rejection at me.

"We did everything we could to throw obstacles in their path," said Misao Ishii, 68, who fought a nine-year court battle over obstruction charges.

"If you throw obstacles at the relationship with Mexico, you would be shooting yourself in the foot," Mr. Guajardo Villarreal told me.

This would be much better than having to continually deal with a government in denial on the issue, and using the Spanish constitutional court to throw obstacles in the way of proper democratic politics in Spain.

"They'll be looking to throw obstacles in the way of the process and propose poison pills in order to frame the debate for the far right," said Frank Sharry, the executive director of America's Voice, a pro-immigration group, referring to some of the potential Republican amendments.

Planners are also considering contingencies should Mr. Hussein throw obstacles up in front of allied forces moving toward Baghdad, from setting Iraqi oil fields aflame, as he ordered done in Kuwait a decade ago, to flooding the marshes of southern Iraq, near Basra.

Yet instead of negotiating, Mr. Morales's opponents have thrown obstacles in the way.

Such talk, however, holds little sway with organized labor and American-born computer programmers who have thrown obstacles in the program's way for the last decade.

If you've read the Book of Job, you know that the Powers That Be aren't above throwing obstacles in the paths of the true believers, be they untimely electricity outages or news items involving deer antler extract.

In court documents the plaintiffs – including the NAACP, represented by the Advancement Project, and the League of Women Voters, represented by the ACLU – set out the various ways in which the new law, HB 589, throws obstacles in the path of potential voters.

That's why they keep throwing obstacles in front of everything we elected Obama to do.