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Obstacle in sentence

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Perhaps the biggest obstacle to initiating a trilateral dialogue is Chinese resistance to formal nuclear arms-control agreements, which is rooted in the memory of Cold War-era nonproliferation initiatives aimed partly at preventing China from developing its own nuclear deterrent.
More integration is preached at the European level, but implicitly portrayed at home as an obstacle to growth.
Today's anti-democrats, however, view the state as an obstacle.
Indeed, as early as the final years of the Cold War, the US began to view the whole system of international treaties and institutions as an obstacle to enforcing its own interests.
But perhaps the biggest obstacle to gender equality in Sub-Saharan Africa is money; simply put, women have less of it.
A third obstacle in the path toward Syrian peace is the US-Russia stalemate.
Thus far, this has been the chief obstacle to stronger partnerships between Western countries and the Arab world.
Indeed, cost – both to users and to ISPs – is the second obstacle.
It would be irresponsible to allow the EU to disintegrate for lack of financing to bring the crisis under control; yet the lack of adequate funding is the main obstacle to successful programs in the frontline countries.
Indeed, German big businesses have been the main obstacle to imposing the type of systemic sanctions that might have dissuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin from annexing Crimea and continuing to back the insurgency (which Russia itself incited) in eastern Ukraine.
Logistics pose another obstacle to intra-African trade.
These countries’ very success thus became an obstacle to policy coordination.
Failure will erect a huge obstacle to European economic growth for years to come, and could threaten the survival of the euro itself.
The big obstacle is access to predictable and affordable finance.
A major obstacle to higher consumer spending is the current condition of the housing market.
(The US, it must be said, is the biggest obstacle here.)
It poses, for example, no obstacle whatsoever to a criminal investigation.
It is obvious that while many Africans have benefited from political emancipation – the legacy of Nyerere’s generation – poverty remains a significant obstacle.
But it was by no means the only obstacle.
Even where customs are no obstacle, as between Albania and Macedonia, very few goods are exchanged.
Some will see in this contretemps proof of the age-old argument that India’s democracy is an obstacle to development.
As the applicability of a vaccine-based approach to malaria has not yet been demonstrated, what anti-malaria efforts must above all strive to achieve is a balance between interventions designed to produce immediate health benefits and those that might eliminate malaria as an obstacle to economic development.
The second obstacle is border controls with Georgia, a mainly political issue: whether Abkhazia and South Ossetia are independent, as Russia maintains, or are part Georgia, as the rest of the world believes.
For starters, domestic politics can pose an obstacle to participation in international treaties, especially when policymakers facing re-election are dependent on the support of interest groups with goals that run counter to the public’s welfare.
The real obstacle to a strategy of persuading Britain to remain in the EU is the EU bureaucracy.
The only obstacle we face in abolishing nuclear weapons is a lack of political will, which can – and must – be overcome.
But the first obstacle entrepreneurs usually encounter is the banks.
However, the opposition’s shortcomings pose a further obstacle to democratic development.
Indeed, aside from fiscal issues, disposal of rubble is the greatest obstacle preventing reconstruction after natural disasters everywhere.
This would remove the main obstacle to rebuilding a Palestinian national unity government.
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