Sentences with phrase «large obstacle to»

I'm a believer that stress is a large obstacle to reaching and maintaining our health goals, even with a healthy diet is in place.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

Not so long ago, I asked a very senior Lib Dem to name the single largest obstacle to his party going into government with Labour.

For the last year Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been one of the largest obstacles to a casino opening in New York City.

-LSB-...] the last year Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been one of the largest obstacles to a casino opening in New York City.

One of the largest obstacles to the transfer of research results into valuable goods is the uncertainty over who benefits from the economic exploitation of these results.

Elias: What do you see as the largest obstacles to the suggestions you and the Education Advisory Council made in the white paper, and how do you see getting around them?

Forget about standardized tests, forget about lack of funds, and forget about technology, the largest obstacle to improving student engagement is a lack of autonomy.

Similarly, in a fall 2017 survey administered by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, faculty of teacher preparation programs were most likely to identify a lack of financial aid for teaching candidates as the largest obstacle to increasing enrollment in their programs, rather than a lack of program capacity.

Negative equity has been one of the largest obstacles to the recovery.

It's the crux of the political impasse that now stymies the negotiations, and indeed it's the largest obstacle to the global solidarity we need to face down the fossil - fuel cartel and launch an emergency global decarbonization.

Broadly, though, I think the failure of climate scientists to even recognise the significance of the secondary uncertainty and the need to «clean house» is in effect the largest obstacle to the long - term formation of any climate policy worth deploying.

The uncertain effect of feedback between climate and clouds is one of the largest obstacles to producing more confident projections of global climate.

One of the largest obstacles to the adoption of flat fees is that they require lawyers to re-think the way they measure value and performance.

A USDA loan, formally known as the USDA Rural Development Guaranteed Housing Loan program, is an attractive program for homebuyers struggling to overcome one of the largest obstacles to achieving homeownership: down payment.

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And if he were to try and do that, Trump would run into a very large obstacle known as the First Amendment.

That «I think I can do it» is key — Musk's gut level faith in his ability to achieve any goal, and overcome any obstacle, is one of the most important aspects of his character that has made him a larger - than - life innovator.

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much -LSB-...]

An offshoot of the larger development firm Edison Nation, which has commercialized hundreds of products in its history, Edison Nation Medical is designed to address the overwhelming obstacles unique to the medical device industry.

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much to handle.

It most probably can, partly because its main competitor, the euro area, has become a large capital exporter with increasingly unattractive financial markets, where recessions and rising unemployment are serious obstacles to fiscal consolidation.

The plan is to launch an oil futures contract on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE), but there are obstacles in convincing large oil producers and consumers in using the yuan and investing in the Shanghai benchmark.

The largest obstacle, according to the 106 respondents, is the on - site costs of accommodating people with disabilities.

Your job is to make sure any obstacles that are in the way, any large boulders blocking progress, are removed and disposed of, or at least pushed to the side of the road.

While defenses against attacks via robots (especially aerial drones) are being developed, there are few obstacles at present to a moderately talented attacker taking advantage of the rapid proliferation of hardware, software, and skills to cause large amounts of physical harm through the direct use of AI or the subversion of AI - enabled systems.

We've also been able to use the welcoming atmosphere we've created to make our large number of employees — around 50,000 today — an asset rather than an obstacle.

It's as accident - proof as these things get, with a number of automated flight modes, and the ability to automatically avoid trees, buildings, or whatever large obstacle you're about to smash into.

Shopping cart abandonment is the single largest obstacle for ecommerce retailers to overcome, and the extent of the problem is shocking.

It's meant to facilitate a larger discussion about improving coordination and communication between organizations and overcoming systemic and legal obstacles.

Among the obstacles to develop a lending market led by the super funds is a lack of corporate lending experience outside of the large banks and funds.

It is as if the fact of our failure to meet a certain standard or surmount a certain obstacle must of necessity constitute evidence of a social or political failing by the larger society.

The Planned Parenthood videos and, just as important, the reaction of liberal elites to the Planned Parenthood videos demonstrate the enormous obstacles and the equally enormous opportunities that conservatives face in reaching a large fraction of the American public.

The event proved that although there were some large obstacles and unforeseeable issues before and during the event, I was still able to integrate both team and social players.

So if trouble persists, you should always consult a medical professional to get to the bottom of a potentially larger obstacle.

It's this terrain, paired with the close proximity to major metro areas, base area facilities, experience hosting large - scale events and shared history with the rise of obstacle racing, that all factored into Tough Mudder's desire to return for 2017.

This cute playset includes five large soft vinyl shapes that you or your toddler can rearrange as much as you like to create an exciting obstacle course experience every time.

While that is an example of grit, most grit is of the less dramatic kind — the kind which allows a person to keep trying in the face of obstacles large and small.

So, for example, a right - handed bee would prefer to navigate the cramped right - side opening in the obstacle than go through the left - side hole, even though it was larger and safer.

Despite the obstacles these student - veterans faced on returning to campus, they all say they benefit enormously from their military experience and that they routinely apply the skills learned and attitudes developed in the military to their studies and to the larger community.

The 186 member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization came to a historic agreement to remove copyright obstacles that have hampered the global availability of textbooks and other published works in accessible formats such as braille, large print and audio.

Through a mixture of News, Reviews, Perspectives, Education Forums, and an Editorial, we explore the obstacles to progress, be they within the classroom, across the school system, or in the larger social arena.

The largest obstacle is the necessity of a huge and expensive cooling system with liquid helium, because of the low Tc of conventional superconductors, which is close to absolute zero (0 K, — 273 °C) * 1.

The new analysis made by Hoscheit, says Barger, shows that there are no current observational obstacles to the conclusion that the Milky Way resides in a very large void.

Similarly, the lack of writing proved no obstacle to the formation and maintenance of complex societies or large states built up by conquest.

According to Karsten Rippe, the largest obstacles were densely packed areas of DNA in the cell nucleus.

«Breakthroughs... could serve to solve many of the large obstacles....

«This creates much more effective obstacle to the solar wind because of 1) its larger size compared to the surface of Charon and 2) the fact that it is highly conductive electrically, which diverts the magnetized plasma of the solar wind more efficiently.

Look for: Knobby, large tires (either 27 1/2 - or 29 - inch): These make it easier — and more fun — to roll over obstacles.

These events also have a large participation, so if you end up showing up to the event alone you have the opportunity to meet people and get help with obstacles that may be challenging to you.

The lack of adequate enforcement of government regulations, the dizzying number of products on the market, and the large variations in quality all create a minefield of obstacles for anyone trying to find the right supplement, vitamin or herb.