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Opposition from the tobacco industry is an obvious obstacle to tobacco control.
Another obstacle is many Taliban leaders’ opposition to Afghanistan’s current constitution, which was adopted after the Taliban lost power.
On the contrary, in Israel, surging nationalism has become a major obstacle to any negotiation.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle is Jordan, which currently is not interested in getting involved.
Despite President Barack Obama’s good intentions, the US Senate is no closer to ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, while China, India, and Pakistan, among others, take shelter behind that inaction, with a fragile voluntary moratorium the only obstacle to resumed testing.
A larger obstacle to progress is fear that more attention to geoengineering solutions would sap motivation to cut emissions.
None of the problems, however, should be seen as an unyielding obstacle to Turkish membership.
A more pressing obstacle, in a sense, is institutionalized feminism, which often finds it more comfortable to blame well-known villains and attack those who dare to call attention to women’s need to learn for themselves the skills of securing and wielding power.
But Obama’s veto power is a big obstacle to reversing his policies.
One obstacle is anti-migrant populism, which has intensified owing to the serious economic challenges that Europeans have faced.
But urbanization faces another obstacle: the hukou system of residency permits, which restricts mobility and bars migrants (an estimated 200 million people) from becoming full-status urban citizens.
In fact, America’s short-term advantages pose the biggest obstacle to its long-term outlook.
But increasing individualism – a focus on one’s own ambitions and economic prosperity – in many countries poses a stubborn obstacle to realizing this vision.
The European Commission spent the last three years trying to tighten the exchange rate criterion, which would make it an insurmountable obstacle for eurozone candidates.
That he overcame this obstacle without changing his stance on engaging North Korea means that times have radically changed.
Indeed, many ordinary people now view the US presence, and not North Korea's communist regime, as the biggest obstacle to unification.
The incredibly complicated decision-making process that has been proposed for the SRM, which, on paper at least, would involve more than 100 individual officials and many committees, is also unlikely to represent a real obstacle, as bank restructuring usually has to happen in a matter of days, typically over a weekend.
But the rule of law, even Singapore-style, is far harder to implement than capitalism, and its absence represents the major obstacle to the establishment of an Asian community based on the EU model.
Poorly equipped or corrupt institutions are a primary obstacle to the effective protection and promotion of human rights.
Alternatively, it is not difficult to imagine a sequence of highly populist leaders who embrace the quack idea that the level of government debt is basically irrelevant and should never be an obstacle to maximizing public spending.
After all, the biggest obstacle to the socio-ecological transformation that the world needs is not, in the end, technological; much of what is required, from organic farming to networked mobility systems that don’t rely on private vehicles, is already within reach.
It is not hard to imagine the next administration – whenever it comes about – perceiving the cap as an obstacle to faster economic growth.
Another obstacle to applying the French model elsewhere is that France enjoys certain unique advantages that are arguably critical to its success.
This emerging values gap is not an insurmountable obstacle to geostrategic rapprochement.
Likewise, the police have removed bollards and barriers that the US Embassy had unilaterally placed on the street in front of its complex in New Delhi, creating an obstacle to free circulation on a public road that India had tolerated in a spirit of friendship.
As the Scandinavian experience has shown, state ownership need not be an obstacle to productivity growth, provided that public assets are professionally and transparently managed, for example, by placing them in the portfolios of pension funds.
A leadership mismatch has, moreover, been a central obstacle in resolving the problem of North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction and the ultimate question of achieving a unified Korea.
In a recent article, Vincenzo Galasso and Paola Profeta from Bocconi university in Milan show that, in Italy, this nexus is now the major obstacle to pension reform.
For FDR, however, the gold clause was an obstacle to devaluation.
Until now, Cyprus has posed the biggest obstacle to Turkish accession.
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