The fact that in both the principal parties there is a clean division of opinion on this issue and that no Government, or none that is at present conceivable, can bring forward a measure for the enfranchisement of women as a Government, is a great, but not necessarily an insuperable obstacle.

He pointed out to them the insurmountable obstacles to such an invasion, physical and moral.

Our guns banging away to the north were a reminder that there was to be no promenade over the Plain, and that we had yet to make good the formidable obstacle of the wadi Sukereir, when I passed a curious procession.

Only in a language so simple could my own anxiety to overcome as soon as possible a fatal obstacle to all investigation of this new world, and the diligent and patient assistance given by my host or his son for a great part of every day, have enabled me to make such rapid progress.

Instead of finding the Belgian people indifferent to the violation of their territory and the Belgian army only a slight obstacle in the road to Paris, as was probably expected by the German general staff, a most gallant and determined resistance was offered to the progress of the German hosts.

But when Tomo Chichi came to welcome the Governor on his arrival, and was introduced to the intended teacher, it appeared that unforeseen obstacles had arisen.

We see the artificial obstacles to appropriate energy policy, international relations, urban planning and affordable healthcare as what they are: artificial.

"It works out somewhat on these lines": Mr. Charles H. Merryweather, the eminent railway engineer, who is at present engaged in superintending the construction of the line from Sarras to the front, has met with considerable obstacles to the rapid completion of his important task "Of course the old man knows who Merryweather is, and what he is about, so the word 'obstacles' would suggest all that to him.

Saladin, a prince of great generosity, bravery, and conduct, having fixed himself on the throne of Egypt, began to extend his conquests over the East; and finding the settlement of the Christians in Palestine an invincible obstacle to the progress of his arms, he bent the whole force of his policy and valour to subdue that small and barren, but important territory.

His firm belief in the realization of the vague picture of the future which he had conceived, nay, which Allah held before him, drove him to the uttermost exertion of his mental power in order to surmount the innumerable unexpected obstacles which he encountered.

This meeting of the representatives of the three orders of the state offered no apparent obstacle to Philip's views.

And as to the similar connexion he formed in the decline of life, he must have overcome obstacles both numerous and weighty, with respect to his own situation and habits in accomplishing that object of his wishes.

That there might be fewer obstacles to the execution of justice, the king was vigilant in demolishing all the new-erected castles of the nobility, in England as well as in his foreign dominions; and he permitted no fortress to remain in the custody of those whom he found reason to suspect [x].

Weary and disheartened, Stewart retraced his steps to London, and after overcoming obstacles innumerable, occasioned mostly by his want of money, laid his case before the king.

At one moment I stumbled and fell over some unseen obstacle; at another I was turned back by an impediment I could not overcome.

But while she thus rendered me bolder in speculation on human affairs, her practical turn of mind, and her almost unerring estimate of practical obstacles, repressed in me all tendencies that were really visionary.

In whatever direction the enemy chose to move with their squadrons and to land their troops our fortifications, where any existed, presented but little obstacle to them.

The vast obstacles by which this movement was trammelled have been surmounted on every side.

In the face of tremendous natural obstacles they utilized their ancient craft to wrest a living from the soil.

The vehicle, however, has not formed the sole obstacle to those projectors:the viaticum, especially the food, has been a difficulty not readily got over.

This is the principal obstacle against their being included in the orthodox community, although their admission is defended, even under present circumstances, by many non-political Moslim scholars.

It was a solid obstacle against which the body shrank from advancing.

Thrusting his foot into the doorway, he interposed an effectual obstacle in the way of shutting the door.

General Meade was arrested for some time by a minute but most annoying obstacle.

Nor was it with material obstacles only that the poet-minister had to contend.