Sentences with phrase «political hurdle for»

Could create political hurdle The measure presents some practical problems — not least the prospect of a gubernatorial veto — but could also create a political hurdle for the party that introduced it.

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But for this to be a new generation's Sputnik moment, we'll need to be smart in navigating the many social and political hurdles between where we are now and where we could be.

For a project like this to have cross-country potential, it would conceivably have to jump a number of serious political and engineering hurdles.

Meanwhile, right - wingers in Israel see this as an opportunity to put a nail in the coffin of the two - state solution by pushing for legislation to annex parts of the West Bank or creating political hurdles that will make it impossible for any future government to negotiate on the final status of Jerusalem.

Sensing potential political hurdles, companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and IBM chartered a new organization, the Partnership for Artificial Intelligence, last year.

It is made evident that the international community faces enormous hurdles in creating the conditions for a sustainable peace which so often depend not merely on the temporary restoration of order, but also the fostering of better socio - economic conditions and greater consensus on the political future of the state.

«My sense is that the money to pay for the bridge, which though substantial by any calculation, is actually a secondary hurdle when compared to mustering the political will to build the bridge.

Charles Venator - Santiago, a political scientist at the University of Connecticut, said Latinos face several hurdles in their quest for greater political representation.

While this move creates a hurdle for the personal enrichment of the above political insiders, the «new amigos» will lubricate passage for Andrew reforms in the Senate.

Alas for Walker and his confrères, there are probably too many political hurdles to overcome to actually achieve the new department.

The deal clears one of the final political hurdles on the way to a one - stop shop for patents to be granted in a single place and be valid across 25 countries.

It could be the story of the design for and execution of the creation of the Gardens of the Palace of Versailles, with all the various technical and political hurdles that needed to be overcome.

Political and other hurdles can get in the way of charter schools» growth and development, and we work hard to help clear the path for success.

In my post just before the Put Solar On It team got to the White House several weeks ago, I admonished McKibben, whom I've known for a very long time, for not adequately considering «the real - world hurdles before setting a goal» — the hurdles in this case being the Secret Service, Obama's political strategists, and the molasses - like phenomenon that White House officials called the «deliberative process.»

Raymond Pierrehumbert, a longtime climate scientist now at Oxford, stopped by The New York Times earlier this month for a long fruitful chat on climate change science and solutions and the hurdles — mostly internal and social (including political)-- that impede progress.

Singapore, London and Stockholm have been using congestion pricing for 35, 7 and 3 years, respectively, and the meeting featured detailed reports on how these cities overcame the political hurdles and improved traffic dramatically through tolling.

Many presenters acknowledged the daunting political hurdles in Washington, which were most vividly described by Representative Bob Inglis, a Republican of South Carolina who was defeated in his primary race largely, he said, over his stance on global warming and the need for a carbon tax.

One of the first challenges for the new PD team will be to overcome political, cultural, operational, and geographic hurdles in order to work together collaboratively.

For now, the deal is headed toward regulatory and political hurdles that could kindle the same Canadian sensitivities that killed the Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. bid.

He said Huawei's proprietary mobile chips may have presented a bigger regulatory hurdle for its US market entry in the current political climate, compared with other Chinese vendors's entry strategy that relies on US chip suppliers.