Road blockades, traffic slowdowns and other protests were widespread – from the southern port city of Marseille to Lille and Caen in the north, and from Nantes and Rennes in the west to Grenoble and Lyon in the southeast.
The journey to the pad involved challenges and hurdles in terms of engineering, financing, regulations and licensing — including 24 different permits from Queensland, along with environmental and airspace approvals — as well as finding a location for a launch pad.
—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
Not that Lana needed any more hurdles to overcome.
But that was before the arrival of teplizumab, a monoclonal antibody approved in late 2022 that delays the advance of the illness and may even halt it at stage 2 in some people.
—
Tara Haelle,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
That clogs the judicial system, wastes limited resources, and delays justice for those with legitimate grievances.
If possible, position yourself in a flat, open area with minimal tree cover, rocks, cliffs, or other obstructions that may block the sound of the whistle.
—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
1 Oct. 2025
In 2025, Roborock launched a vacuum cleaner with a robotic arm for moving socks and other obstructions out of the way.
So when a person takes, say, a high dose of the motion sickness drug scopolamine — which blocks the effects of acetylcholine — things start to go awry.
The journey, first to Paris and then through Switzerland and Milan and onwards to Venice, was for the most part pleasant, being blessedly free of many of the wearisome and often infuriating hindrances and misdirections that rail travel usually entails.
—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
Regulations and reporting are just some of the hindrances holding Europe back.
—
Frederik Riskær Pedersen,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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