5 Metaphors for obstruction

" "In other words, obstruction is no stage in non-co-operation?" "No,".... "Are you satisfied that all efforts at constitutional agitation have been exhausted and that non-co-operation is the only course left us?"

The obstruction caused by bulky apparatus is another inconvenience, upon which it is unnecessary to dwell.

The great obstruction of publick measures is partiality, whether from friendship, bribery, or any other motive; against partiality alone the clause which is now offered, is levelled; and, indeed, it is so dangerous an evil, that it cannot be obviated with too much caution.

All those things which to the Eastern thinker are but an obstruction and a veil, to the Western have become the very means of spiritual ascent.

The season which the residents of cities think an obstruction is in the country an extension of intercourse: it opens every forest from here to Labrador, free of entrance; the most tangled thicket, the most treacherous marsh becomes passable; and the lumberer or moose-hunter, mounted on his snow-shoes, has the world before him.

5 Metaphors for  obstruction