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Перевод: obstacle

[существительное]
помеха ; препятствие; препона

Тезаурус:

1. Dr Carey also faces opposition from the Vatican, which said the decision was "a grave obstacle" to reconciliation between the churches.
2. The stairs were a formidable obstacle to son Michael, also, since we lived in a bungalow.
3. Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex, and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies, putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest: according to Prodigy Services Co, the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm, and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels, forests of columns, and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal, with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip, but say that could happen within the next 12 months - Brave New World, or the embodiment of virtual sex.
4. The difference in regional house prices acts as a major obstacle to mobility of labour.
5. Yet when he and other top men at GE are asked why the company has only one foreigner on its 19-member board of directors, they insist that this is no obstacle to making the company truly global.
6. Cockburn reduces two contradictory processes of the local state - that it is simultaneously agent and obstacle for the national state - to those of a one-way agent.
7. He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle, which inadvertently threw him against the foreman, knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor.
8. Our Lord is teaching in these parables and encounters that the pursuit of wealth can so easily become an obstacle to entering the Kingdom.
9. What seemed a formality on Wednesday looked less certain 24 hours later, and he himself hinted at a possible obstacle when he said he would have to get the permission of his employers, the brewers John Smith.
10. Mrs Thatcher also believed that the publicly owned industries were inefficient and an obstacle to the creation of a more dynamic and adaptive economy.
11. He (among others) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations, but also because its inherent "adaptability" was "wasted" (always a key notion in National Efficiency circles) by the "haphazard" nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education.
12. Such engines would be able to run at very high temperatures, with high efficiencies - but the difference between the expansion rates of metal and ceramic components is a big obstacle.
13. Earlier chapters have drawn out some of the consequences of this peculiarity; this one turns to procedural matters, and to the way in which the involvement of third parties, once an obstacle to the legal recognition of trusts, was turned into a virtue and one of their greatest strengths in the legal enforcement of testamentary dispositions.