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But Taiwan remained a huge, seemingly impossible obstacle.
High production costs, particularly in energy, are one key obstacle.
Since 1054, this idea has been a primary obstacle to Christian unity.
The main obstacle is that they won’t increase the profits of drug companies, on which, in the absence of adequate government funding, our professional organizations, conferences, journals, research, and teaching institutions have become so dependent.
The government was also wise to establish a special sub-commission to examine the history of the bloodshed, because disagreement about the past often constitutes an insurmountable obstacle to peace and reconciliation.
It is time to abandon the “either/or” discourse that pits science against humanities – which the British chemist and novelist C.P. Snow identified more than a half-century ago as an obstacle to human progress.
But the new view also highlights an important obstacle: many advanced countries’ trade and investment treaties prohibit the regulation of cross-border finance.
The biggest obstacle until now has been the United States.
One obstacle is the lack of proven commercial business models and adequate and appropriate forms of financing.
The Arab-Israeli conflict is a major political obstacle, but by no means the only one.
Some activists and government officials get the relationship between strong IP protection and economic growth backwards, claiming that IP rights are an obstacle to development, and thus should not be enforced until after countries achieve high-income status.
But drug patents and prices are not the main – or even a major – obstacle to patients’ access to medical care in India.
But I suspect that the drivers of today’s slow growth and low interest rates go far beyond low fertility rates, in which case this should not be an obstacle.
A second potential obstacle for Francis is that he, like his predecessors, is promoting a revolution from above.
The key obstacle to this proposal is the requirement of congressional approval to increase America’s quota share.
But an important obstacle remains: the legal predicament of gay men in much of the developing world.
Indeed, these countries’ lack of an established social contract has been the main obstacle to establishing political authority and effective governance.
Cuban Time TravelHAVANA – For a United States citizen, the short trip to Havana requires navigating an obstacle course, owing to the trade and travel embargo that the US maintains against Cuba.
Regulatory divergences are a much more important obstacle to US-European trade than tariffs.
Events have certainly moved at a brisk pace in recent months, with one obstacle after another to a lasting deal seeming to come down.
In place of a president whose only qualification for the office was his father’s name, we now have one whose intelligence and vision overcame the formidable obstacle of being the exotically named son of an African Muslim.
One would expect that, with the rising Iranian threat fostering tacit security cooperation between Israel and its more stable Arab neighbors (particularly Saudi Arabia), Netanyahu would aspire to resolve the Palestinian issue, thus removing the last obstacle to an overt strategic partnership.
To consider just one obstacle, no vessels suitable for installing offshore foundations comply with the Jones Act, which requires that work on such projects use US-flag ships, constructed in the US, and owned and wholly operated by US citizens.
A second obstacle to sustained recovery is the eurozone’s bad neighborhood.
Indeed, the politicization of history remains the principal obstacle to reconciliation in East Asia.
Where national wage-bargaining systems are the obstacle, the European Commission should say so, and countries should be required to change them.
The main obstacle to be overcome in establishing such a system will be to convince donor countries’ governments to pay for their carbon emissions.
For the US, the settlements have proven to be an equal-opportunity obstacle, obstructing both Republican and Democratic diplomacy.
When the war started, the first thing the Israeli army command sought was the evacuation of the area’s settlements, which Israel’s generals knew would quickly become an impossible burden, and an obstacle to maneuver, for their troops.
But domestic politics has made a bad situation much worse; indeed, the biggest obstacle to economic recovery this year came in the form of a massive corruption scandal at the state-owned oil giant Petrobras.
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