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.

The 1996 signing of peace accords, which ended 36 years of civil war, removed a major obstacle to foreign investment, and Guatemala since then has pursued important reforms and macroeconomic stabilization.

Regarding the timing of German rapprochement, many historians agree that the dismissal of Litvinov, whose Jewish ethnicity was viewed unfavorably by Nazi Germany, removed an obstacle to negotiations with Germany.

A dump-Roosevelt movement had centered on the candidacy of Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, but Hanna's death earlier in the year had removed this obstacle.

At the close of the Anglo-Boer War in 1902, the four colonies were for the first time under a common flag, and the most significant obstacle which had prevented previous plans at unification had been removed.

The legend is that Lazar Kaganovich, Stalin's associate and director of the Moscow reconstruction plan, prepared a special model of Red Square, in which the cathedral could be removed, and brought it to Stalin to show how the cathedral was an obstacle for parades and traffic.

Harvey would be the " begetter " of the sonnets in the sense that it would be he who provided them to the publisher, after the death of Southampton's mother removed an obstacle to publication.

However, both Brasidas and Cleon were killed at Amphipolis and their deaths removed the chief obstacle to peace.

This was countered by the Prince of Wales, who vehemently supported passage by the Houses of Parliament of the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, which would have removed the obstacle.

His departure removed the final obstacle to the conclusion of an Anglo-Austrian Alliance which would become the centrepiece of British foreign policy until 1756.

General Prats ' retirement removed the last real obstacle for a military coup, which in fact took place only three weeks later, on September 11, 1973.

The defeat of Ariobarzanes's forces at the Persian Gate removed the last military obstacle between Alexander and Persepolis.

Jeong was revered throughout Goryeo, even by Yi Bang-won himself, but he was seen to be an obstacle and as such, in the eyes of supporter of the new dynasty, had to be removed.

In January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor and it was the passing of the Enabling Act on 23 March, giving Hitler dictatorial powers, that removed the Reichstag as an obstacle to concluding a concordat with the Vatican.

The voluntary dissolution of the Centre Party removed that obstacle and Hitler now had absolute power and brought respectability to the state: " within six months of its birth, the Third Reich had been given full approval by the highest spiritual power on earth ".

When Ordnance eventually returned the lands to Sparks through the Vesting Act, the major obstacle to incorporation was removed.

When the feuding parties agreed to continue as they had been for another three years, the last obstacle to the move was removed and packing began.

The victory removed the last obstacle barring the road to Madrid, which fell several days later.

The dismissal of Litvinov, whose Jewish ethnicity was viewed disfavorably by Nazi Germany, removed an obstacle to negotiations with Germany.

The hump-backed road bridge at Loxwood was removed and in-filled in 1905, ( to be confirmed ) severing the canal in two and leaving a major obstacle to restoration.

That obstacle was removed in 1983 with the introduction of the Transaction Monitoring Facility ( TMF ), which handles the various aspects of fault tolerance on the system level, transparent to the application.

Thus the last obstacle to Home Rule was removed.

After His Excellency closed in April 1895, McIntosh wrote to Sullivan informing him that she planned to return to concert singing, and so the obstacle to his further collaboration with Gilbert was removed.

* 1800: The Stone Cross in Market Square removed as being an obstacle to carts and wagons.

With the castle under French control, the main obstacle to the French entering the Seine valley was removed ; they were able to enter the valley unmolested and take Normandy.