It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??

The last obstacle in Mrs. Geraghty's globe-girdling trip was smoothed out when a representative of Syria called upon her to explain that his brother would meet her at the border of that country -- so newly separated from Egypt and the United Arab Republic that she hadn't been able to obtain a visa.

Another obstacle was the grammatical construction of Siddo.

Tribalism, in particular, was singled out as an obstacle.

Adam Kirsch, in his biography of Disraeli, states that his Jewishness was " both the greatest obstacle to his ambition and its greatest engine.

Here, the Nebel was less of an obstacle, but the great battery positioned on the edge of the village enjoyed a good field of fire across the open ground stretching to the hamlet of Schwennenbach.

Concubinage was an institution practiced in ancient Rome that allowed a man to enter into an informal but recognized relationship with a woman ( concubina, plural concubinae ) not his wife, most often a woman whose lower social status was an obstacle to marriage.

Ufsilåm was a trail with one obstacle ( ufse ) like a jump, a fence, a difficult turn, a gorge, a cliff ( often more than 10 meters high ) and more.

He was also spending time with Eleanor Jacques, but her attachment to Dennis Collings remained an obstacle to his hopes of a more serious relationship. The pen-name " George Orwell " was inspired by the River Orwell

This was the unconscious force within the individual that contributed to illness, Freud in fact coming to consider " the obstacle of an unconscious sense of guilt ... as the most powerful of all obstacles to recovery.

The obstacle to German unification was Austria, and Bismarck solved the problem with a series of wars that united the German states north of Austria.

One very significant economic obstacle in Haiti's early independence was its necessary payment of 150 million francs to France beginning in 1825 ; this did much to drain the country of its capital stock.

Their first obstacle was the unusual shape of the building site, a trapezoid of land at the intersection of Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues.

Because of Koyama's considerable wealth, money was rarely considered an obstacle ; estimates at the time of completion put the cost of the project at US $ 350 million.

When Tiberius died on 16 March 37 AD, Caligula was well positioned to assume power, despite the obstacle of Tiberius ’ s will, which named him and his cousin Tiberius Gemellus as joint heirs.

Wycliffe's fundamental principle of the preexistence in thought of all reality involves the most serious obstacle to freedom of the will ; the philosopher could assist himself only by the formula that the free will of man was something predetermined of God.

Since Trotsky was so closely associated with the policy previously followed by the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk, he resigned from his position as Commissar for Foreign Affairs in order to remove a potential obstacle to the new policy.

Lenin recognized and accepted the existence of nationalism among oppressed peoples, advocated their national rights to self-determination, and opposed the ethnic chauvinism of “ Greater Russia ” because such ethnocentrism was a cultural obstacle to establishing the proletarian dictatorship in the territories of the deposed Tsarist Russian Empire ( 1721 – 1917 ).

Many Britons celebrated the action as needed to prevent another Mutiny like 1857, an attitude that caused many Indian leaders to decide the Raj was controlled by their enemies, and was more an obstacle than a pathway.

More commonly nowadays, it has become an obstacle to be avoided for normal operation of particle accelerators, vacuum electronics, radars, satellite communication devices, and so forth.

If there was an obstacle that the driver had avoided, the trailers might eventually hit it as they rounded a corner.

The obstacle to nyAsa is phalepsA or the desire for mundane benefits, which should therefore be avoided.

Diffraction refers to various phenomena which occur when a wave encounters an obstacle.

When a tree stump or other obstruction such as a rock is encountered, the ploughshare is thrown upwards, clear of the obstacle, to avoid breaking the plough's harness or linkage ; ploughing can be continued when the weight is returned to the earth after the obstacle is passed.

A wave exhibits diffraction when it encounters an obstacle that bends the wave or when it spreads after emerging from an opening.

Diffraction effects are more pronounced when the size of the obstacle or opening is comparable to the wavelength of the wave.

Despite its loss of influence during the Tang Dynasty, Confucianist doctrine remained a mainstream Chinese orthodoxy for two millennia until the 20th century, when it was attacked by radical Chinese thinkers as a vanguard of a pre-modern system and an obstacle to China's modernization, eventually culminating in its repression during the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.

Path loss normally includes propagation losses caused by the natural expansion of the radio wave front in free space ( which usually takes the shape of an ever-increasing sphere ), absorption losses ( sometimes called penetration losses ), when the signal passes through media not transparent to electromagnetic waves, diffraction losses when part of the radiowave front is obstructed by an opaque obstacle, and losses caused by other phenomena.

Poisson thought that he had found a flaw when he argued that a consequence of Fresnel ’ s theory was that there would exist an on-axis bright spot in the shadow of a circular obstacle, where there should be complete darkness according to the particle-theory of light.

Immediately following this initial acceleration, deceleration injuries can occur when a person impacts directly against a rigid surface or obstacle after being set in motion by the force of the blast.

Andrew Hoy did come close, however, and in 2010 Oliver Townend was competing for this coveted " Grand Slam " at Rolex Kentucky when he suffered a fall at obstacle # 20 which eliminated him from competition.

This may occur when the signal from either satellite is blocked by an obstacle.

Slopes in the lee of a ridge or other wind obstacle accumulate more snow and are more likely to include pockets of deep snow, wind slabs, and cornices, all of which, when disturbed, may result in avalanche formation.

There are many dangers in horse racing for both horse and jockey: a horse can stumble and fall, or fall when jumping an obstacle, exposing both jockey and horse to the danger of being trampled and injured.

A plain obstacle that comes at a point when the runners are usually in a good rhythm and thus rarely causes problems.

On the subject Bishop writes: The greatest obstacle to our comprehension of Finnegans Wake been ... the failure on the part of readers to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as a " reconstruction of the nocturnal life " and an " imitation of the dream-state "; and as a consequence readers have perhaps too easily exercised on the text an unyielding literalism bent on finding a kind of meaning in every way antithetical to the kind of meaning purveyed in dreams Bishop has also somewhat brought back into fashion the theory that the Wake is about a single sleeper ; arguing that it is not " the ' universal dream ' of some disembodied global everyman, but a reconstruction of the night – and a single night – as experienced by ' one stable somebody ' whose ' earwitness ' on the real world is coherently chronological.

Another obstacle comes when the young Dereham comes to visit the Queen and blackmails her regarding their prior romance.

During the era of log floating, logjams sometimes occurred when logs struck an obstacle.

Previously, when the implement hit an obstacle, the towing link would break or the tractor could flip over.

The ram was, in turn, connected to the upper of the three links so the increased drag ( as when a plough hits a rock ) caused the hydraulics to lift the implement until the obstacle was passed.

In addition, shyness may manifest when one is in the company of certain people and completely disappear when with others — one may be outgoing with friends and family, but experience love-shyness toward potential partners, even if strangers are generally not an obstacle.