Before us are struggles, obstacles and sacrifices.
But even if there were no obstacles to his freedom of action he would do nothing.
Various, too, were the obstacles which the national growth encountered in various localities.
They cannot succeed in forming those great currents of opinion which overwhelm the most solid obstacles.
You have to find out what your resources are, what conditions are at command, and what the difficulties and obstacles are.
We seemed to think that if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women--why, they would be no obstacles at all.
Interest means that one is identified with the objects which define the activity and which furnish the means and obstacles to its realization.
Where an activity takes time, where many means and obstacles lie between its initiation and completion, deliberation and persistence are required.
All were ready and willing to do; but, alas, the obstacles which had prevented Mr. Reed getting men for the mountain work still remained to be overcome.
A vessel can go up it into Peru without encountering insurmountable obstacles among its white waters, which are fed by a great number of petty affluents.