Is "an obstacle/obstruction against something" grammatically correct?

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Recently I've been asked to edit a text and there I observed a phrase that could be simplified to: "Against young professionals trying to find a job in [certain profession], there are two obstructions ...". Alternatively, we discussed a version ending with "... are two obstructions" (without "there").
The "obstruction against [something]" part seemed weird to me, and to prove or disprove my gut feeling I did the following:

Checked usages of the word "obstruction" in several major dictionaries (no usages with "against")
Looked up "an obstruction against" and "an obstacle against" in Google (very few results, absolute majority of which from non-English websites)

Even though the above might seem like a sufficient proof of the wording being incorrect, I, being a non-native English speaker, decided to check it here, just to be extra sure.
Is "obstruction against something" grammatically correct? What about the whole phrasing I presented above? If not, how could the same meaning be conveyed in a grammatically correct fashion?

fev · Accepted Answer

You are probably right in frowning a bit at obstructions, because it is more seldom used than obstacles, as you can check here
As for the grammaticality of your sentence, I think it is not incorrect. However, it might read better if you express it in this way:

There are two obstacles against young professionals trying to find a job in this field.

I do not know the rest of your sentence, but I am sure that one can find a way to fit this sentence in without a problem.

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