Sentence examples for to present an obstacle from inspiring English sources

To protect against this, and keep other threats at bay, there were several courses of action available: create encircling earthworks to keep an enemy at a distance; build the hall in stone; or raise it up on an artificial mound, known as a motte, to present an obstacle to attackers.

That is, in some cases, 'feeling well enough' appeared to present an obstacle to adherence.

Some position above its mouth, commanding the passage of the river, should be rendered sufficiently strong to cover the armed vessels which may be stationed there for defence, and in conjunction with them to present an insuperable obstacle to any force attempting to pass.

The credit card sale is not large enough to present a significant obstacle to the First Union-Wachovia merger.

That the president-elect is on the record opposing stricter gun control might seem to present a new obstacle, but it's left to those outraged at mass gun violence to insist the problem is taken up by the new power structure in Washington.

While heterogeneity among genes does not appear to present a major obstacle to analysis of these data, variation among sites within genes is potentially a larger problem.

What it does do is present an obstacle to those who wish to erase Jewish history in the region, and that is the central Palestinian animus in this particular furore.

However, due to the flexibility of the schema, there are many different ways to store large-scale phenotyping and genotyping data, which may present an obstacle to efficient sharing and reusing of software.

To determine whether other DNA- or Srs2-interacting proteins could also present an obstacle to or affect Srs2 activity, we tested the effect of the presence of the Rad51 and Mre11 proteins.

Media companies present an obstacle to awareness: "Most media outlets don't like to cover themselves".

"They are illegal under international law, present an obstacle to peace and take us further away from a two-state solution at a time when negotiations to achieve this objective urgently need to be resumed".