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Such structures have been built across the River Thames in London, and a similar barrier project is underway in Venice, Italy.
Moreover, aggressive counter-terrorism activities and the separation barrier have decisively reduced cross-border attacks, containing mounting pressure in Palestine as the conflict remains on the back burner.
After some hesitation, Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union’s leader, allowed his East German counterpart, Walter Ulbricht, to erect a barrier between East and West Berlin in order to ensure the survival of communism in the entire Soviet bloc.
Khrushchev had assented to Ulbricht’s plea that only a physical barrier would maintain the viability of the East German state.
Such a commitment would also give crucial confidence to poor countries that climate-change control will not become a barrier to long-term economic development.
Finance is another great barrier.
Such policies are a clear barrier to reducing meat consumption, and they contradict countries’ commitment to meet their Paris-agreement targets.
One potential barrier to this approach is a dearth of well-trained teachers.
But the differences between Europe’s economies were never so dramatic as to form an insurmountable barrier to embarking upon the most ambitious project of all: adopting a common currency.
Firmly anchored in the community of Western democracies, its role transcends the technical aspects of the European integration process, for it bears the responsibility of ensuring that no new barrier excludes our Eastern neighbors from taking part in this process.
Businesses in oligopolistic sectors often complain about the burden of compliance; but they clearly rely on regulation as a barrier to market entry by new competitors.
A radical reform of the Kafala system, which monitors and regulates migrant labor, would remove a major barrier to labor mobility.
By destroying Iraq as a counterbalancing regional force, the US dealt a major blow to its traditional Gulf allies, for whom Iraq served as a barrier against Iran’s ambitions.
Lingering Marxist ideas are a dangerous barrier to understanding the reform process and the working of a capitalistic market economy.
But, to the extent that a misplaced focus on country rankings becomes a barrier to sensible policy, it can do real damage.
It creates a huge barrier to access to medicines for two billion people and pushes 100 million people into extreme poverty every year.
If “having a family” is still a career barrier for women, but not for men, that, too, is a matter of women’s rights (and thus of human rights).
The most critical barrier for Hamas and others should be a clear commitment to forego armed violence in the pursuit of political ends.
In a world in which geography is a diminishing barrier to business, can cooperatives sufficiently distinguish themselves as a viable alternative model?
The 2003 Iraq War exacerbated Sunni-Shia tensions and removed a critical barrier to Iranian ambitions.
Given the absence of any regulation regarding fairness in news coverage of campaigns, the blatant corruption of many news organizations, and the absence of a current affairs program on national, prime-time television, banning the purchase of airtime merely erects an insurmountable barrier to potential new political entrants.
For the well insured, money is not a barrier to good care.
First, the domestic interest groups that benefit from low borrowing costs have become a barrier to their liberalization.
While the euro has not caused France’s economic problems, its politicians’ commitment to the single currency represents an insurmountable barrier to solving them.
Development strategists understand that poor health is a harbinger of poverty and a barrier to eliminating it.
Debt represents a barrier to that finance.
And, finally, they create a barrier to labor flows from the public to the private sector.
But the insurgency is no barrier to China’s use of Gwadar to project power in the Middle East and East Africa, and against peninsula India.
But that point merely underscores the need to address the faults in global governance that constitute a major barrier to securing the public purpose of capital markets.
Southeast Asian countries appear to be especially immune to the bane of severe mental illness; in other regions, poverty, or lack of development, seems to offer a protective barrier.
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