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I love the segue of how they start in the beginning with how we broke the sound barrier to the advent of the space program.
Breaking Babe Ruth's single season record of 60 home runs was like breaking the sound barrier but this movie reduces the event to a hokey, schmaltzy mess and strangely attempts to portray Maris as a surly chain-smoking malcontent and Mantle as a temperamental, philandering alcoholic.
I've yet to see a silent film that makes it across the sound barrier.
Beyond moral judgement, I liked this portray of a girl who decided to break a barrier that had never been broken and therefore become as unique as one can be.
Had it not been for that, I would probably had ignored the language barrier and recorded the shows for keeps.
The other major barrier to growth is corruption.
In April 2000, when the Dakar Framework for Action was adopted, signatories identified conflict as a “major barrier” to attaining the goal of “education for all,” one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Absent a Palestinian partner, and given continuing Palestinian terrorism - which Israel's harsh responses fail to quell - what Sharon appears to be doing now follows from his strategic-oriented thinking: set up an effective barrier, move some of the isolated and strategically untenable settlements, and wait for another day.
Because the common tariff is at a relatively low level on industrial and fishery products, this might not be an insuperable barrier for UK exports, and it would allow some flexibility in protecting UK companies from imports.
The prospect that repealing Obamacare would cause more than 20 million people to lose their formal insurance coverage, as the Congressional Budget Office has estimated, is understandably a serious barrier to legislative progress.
Federalism forms a final barrier to change, by allowing opposition parties to alter, dilute, and reject bills that are detrimental to their clientele.
Aside from their wariness of the US, past Brazilian presidents also feared their domestic business establishment, which never met a tariff or a non-tariff barrier it did not like.
They do not want to deal with the Palestinians, and so are erecting a physical barrier through areas that are now nominally under Palestinian control.
Segregated schooling is a barrier to integration and produces prejudice and failure.
One key barrier to agreement is the perennial conflict over the appropriate burden of defense on national budgets – a conflict that is particularly intense in today’s environment of fiscal anxiety.
This year, on the International Day for Disaster Reduction, we want to shine a light on women and girls, and to recognize what they are already doing to build their communities’ resilience in places where gender is not a barrier to their full participation in public life.
Article 9 remains a cherished symbol of Japan's peaceful posture, and a barrier against possible re-militarization.
An artist who has lived under tyranny (and even one who hasn't) cannot ignore the barrier that separates the two roles.
Meanwhile, the iOS and Android app stores have become both a point of entry for many small businesses and a barrier to entry for new smartphone providers.
This stratagem precipitated the renewed violence that erupted in June when Palestinians dug a tunnel under the barrier that surrounds Gaza and assaulted some Israeli soldiers, killing two and capturing one.
Traumatized Israelis cling to the false hope that their lives will be made safer by incremental unilateral withdrawals from occupied areas, while Palestinians see their remnant territories reduced to little more than human dumping grounds surrounded by a provocative “security barrier” that embarrasses Israel’s friends and fails to bring safety or stability.
Access to capital is another barrier.
Many people believe the biggest barrier to the economy is the lack of reliable electricity.
Indeed, border guards and their equipment can be equally effective without a physical barrier.
Harvard Business School Professors Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter argue that America’s two-party system “has become the major barrier to solving nearly every important challenge” facing the country.
Not only will politicians’ influence be towards monetary excess, which of course is a serious enough matter for a bank whose primary mandate is price stability, but also the excess will constitute a serious barrier to structural reform, which is essential for European prosperity in a competitive global economy.
For the past ten years, the greatest practical barrier to peace has been Israel’s failure to carry out any true withdrawal to its 1967 borders, owing to the political weight of hundreds of thousands of settlers in the West Bank and the religious and secular communities that support them.
Ironically, the strength of transnational criminal organizations in Latin America may act as a barrier to external terrorist groups.
It is the principal barrier to the development of democratic politics.
Israel must freeze its settlement activity in the West Bank and stop constructing its barrier wall on Palestinian territories.
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