Something that stands in the way of or holds up progress: The road crew removed the obstacle of the fallen tree limb. We had to overcome many obstacles to put on this show. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin obstāculum, from obstāre, to hinder : ob-, against; see ob- ...
Something that stands in the way of or holds up progress:The road crew removed the obstacle of the fallen tree limb. We had to overcome many obstacles to put on this show. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latinobstāculum, fromobstāre,to hinder:ob-,against; seeob-+stāre,to sta...
: something that interferes : obstacle without let or hindrance let 2 of 3 verb let; letting 1 : to cause to : make let it be known 2 chiefly British : to give use of in return for payment rooms to let 3 a : to allow or permit to let them go b used to in...
observer/əb’zə:və/n.观察员,观测者 obstacle/‘obstəkl/n.障碍,障碍物,妨害 obtain/əb’tein/vt.获得,得到,买到 obvious/‘obviəs/a.明显的,显而易见的 occasion/ə’keiʒən/n.场合,时刻;时机 occasional/ə’keiʒənəl/a.偶然的;临时的 occupation/ɔkju’peiʃ...
The fear of failure is the single greatest obstacle to success. Failure is not the enemy, inaction is. Don’t be afraid to fail, be afraid of not trying. Will you let mistakes define you or fuel your future? Be Tenacious – Find a third way when it’s either/or. Push the system...
She is the author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us and co-author of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in ...
One report suggested that an obstacle to university participation in HFA was the fear of academics that “community-oriented teaching and research will lower standards” [40]. Less charitably, it was thought that medical schools are often “trapped by the conservatism and inward, clinically-oriented...
"Spirit"comes from the Latin word"to breathe".What we breathe is ai,which is certainly matte,however thin.Despite usage to the contrar,there is no necessary implication in the word"spiritual"that we are talking of anything other than matter(ncluding the matter of which the brain is mad),...
To the world, that looked like the path to oblivion. But to those who have been given the eyes of faith, the Way of the Cross, as we pray every Holy Week, is “none other than the way of life and peace.” And thus the healing of Bartimaeus is not just the story of one man’...
One who isheadstrongis obstinately bent on having his or her own way:The headstrong senator ignored his constituency.A person who isrecalcitrantrebels against authority:The police arrested the recalcitrant protestors. Intractablerefers to what is obstinate and difficult to manage or control:"the intract...