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Using facilities that are more familiar and more conveniently located could reduce this barrier to attendance.
From computers and scanners to mobile devices, an increasing number of humans spend much of their conscious lives interacting with the world through electronics, the only barrier between brain and machine being the senses — sight, sound, and touch — through which humans and devices interface.
Another barrier to their collaboration has been that the brain is widely viewed as a static entity, determined by genetic preprogramming and early childhood experience.
Such rapid population growth, on top of even faster increases over the last 50 years, is a major barrier to economic development.
On the other hand, increased automation could be a huge barrier to economic development for countries still facing rapid population growth.
Turkey’s new regional prominence has transformed a static Cold War barrier into a potential catalyst for regional peace, prosperity, and stability.
Concerns about overprotection of intellectual property acting as a barrier to innovation and its diffusion are not new.
Or perhaps the cost of the vaccine is a barrier in some of these countries.
The danger unleashed by sweeping away the Glass-Steagall barrier to moral hazard became clear after Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail in September 2008.
Although public investment has been on the rise, the country’s poor infrastructure remains a barrier to higher growth.
One key barrier to private investment in Africa is risk.
The threat of terrorism has been used to justify some of the new walls; but the strongest indicator of whether a county will build a barrier is whether it shares a border with a substantially poorer neighbor.
The enduring legacy of the Berlin Wall is not the inspiring notion that freedom and the will of the people can knock down any barrier.
Though she would not be the first woman president (Rousseff broke the gender barrier) or the first from humble origins (Lula broke that taboo), she would be the first mulatto – darker-skinned than traditional Brazilian political leaders – to hold the office.
The tragedy of millions of impoverished people dying of AIDS even when drugs exist to treat them raises deep questions about global intellectual property rights, because patent protection is creating a barrier to essential medicines reaching the world's poor.
As nearly 40% of Latin American legislators are the only legislator from their party elected in a district, this poses a real barrier to women.
There is a conceptual barrier to understanding the problems that officials might face in regulating crowdfunding, owing to the failure of prevailing economic models to account for the manipulative and devious aspects of human behavior.
A significantly higher saving rate would help the US economy in the long run, but it would be a barrier to robust growth in the next few years.
First, the rise of an Arab political class that is more influenced by religion than by secular nationalism has eroded the main structural barrier to Turkish engagement.
To help overcome this barrier, governments should treat generational inequality with the same sense of urgency as other forms of inequality, accelerating efforts to introduce youth quotas for political parties, parliaments, and other decision-making institutions.
In fact, the desire for self-improvement through migration is a key element of the human story – one that no desert, sea, or artificial barrier has been able to quell.
But, because a cash-flow BAT would act like a trade barrier, America’s trading partners would rightly view it as a protectionist measure.
And misplaced regulation – for example, in the service sector – remains a barrier to healthy competition in many countries.
The essence of bureaucracy is complexity, which is the greatest barrier of all to start-ups.
This institutional arrangement creates a high barrier to populist outsiders.
India should also beef up its border security forces to become a more formidable barrier to the PLA.
Emergency insurance might also cover the cost of care until the “open enrollment” period for purchasing insurance at the end of each year (if political pressure does not lead to the repeal of that temporary barrier to insurance).
As with so many climate measures, cost can be a major barrier to implementation.
The traditional view that women belong in the home is arguably the largest barrier to women’s advancement in both society and the workplace.
For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.
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