Sentence examples for urban obstacles from inspiring English sources

But what about such urban obstacles as jaywalkers, bike messengers, gridlock and double-parked trucks?

He trained extensively in Los Angeles, doing parkour, the French discipline that involves impossible-looking leaps up, over and under urban obstacles, and even running sideways on walls.

But the impetus, in almost every case, has come from the farmers, who often till when their day jobs are done, overcoming peculiarly urban obstacles.

Tanks drove by the reviewing stand and demonstrated their capabilities: fording a pond, shooting on targets at a distant tree line, climbing urban obstacles, a sort of fashion runway for the militarily inclined.

The station will also start trailing its coverage of the big race today with an advert featuring horse riders jumping over urban obstacles such as cars and garden fences, with the strapline: "The Grand National - the original extreme sport".

In the last few years, though, companies set on reviving the technology have designed a new generation of equipment to deliver a vast flow of data reliably, not only when confronted by such urban obstacles as venetian blinds and window washers, but in the face of more elemental disruptions like fog and earthquakes, too.

It counters the bad gas mileage with 22-inch wheels and a high stance allows the vehicle to traverse nearly any urban obstacle — like a flowerbed at the mall or another soccer mom's Prius.

Thieme and company are optimistic that urban commuters, weary of burning fuel as they sit in traffic jams and circle round blocks seeking parking spots, will jump at the chance to weave through the urban obstacle course and park hassle-free on sidewalks and plazas – and unlike riding a bicycle, do it without fatigue.

This year the Concrete Hero 2013 Urban Obstacle Challenge will be held at Los Angeles State Historic Park and will feature several new L.A.-themed obstacles and an extended five-mile route through the streets and alleyways of downtown.

Starship Technologies' head of computer vision and perception, Kristjan Korjus, is behind a fleet of self-driving food delivery drones which boast a collection of sensors and cameras so smart they can trundle through complex urban obstacle courses to deliver their fast food packages.

What are you doing?" The brand of urban-obstacle-course gymnastics they practice may be at odds with the socially conservative mores of Khan Yunis - the southern Gaza town and periodic war zone that they call home - but it is their chosen form of self-expression.