Sentences with phrase «political hurdles»

But in the past, getting emergency funding has meant overcoming political hurdles.

I think the biggest political hurdle is on a local level.

But political hurdles delayed field - testing by eight years.

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.

There are significant political hurdles to be overcome before the report's recommendations can be translated into action.

That's a staggering task, and there are huge technological and political hurdles standing in the way.

However, the expansion continues to face political hurdles after British Columbia's NDP government recently served notice that it would temporarily ban expanded shipments of bitumen on the Trans Mountain pipeline.

But it would create a major new political hurdle for the bill, and Brady has thus far declined to include it in bill.

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.

However, the expansion continues to face political hurdles after British Columbia's NDP government served notice that it would temporarily ban expanded shipments of bitumen on the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Australia's experience with CCS mirrors technical, financial and political hurdles experienced in the United States.

Big news in patent reform: the Innovation Act, our favorite troll - killing bill, has cleared its first major political hurdle.

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

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.

The closest thing to such might be Shubhankar Sharma or Haotong Li, though both will face all kinds of logistical, cultural, and even political hurdles to drive the kind of adoption that Woods did in the U.S., even if it was temporary.

This ruling created an unexpected political hurdle for Macri, who will have to negotiate with the provinces a new fiscal pact.

Because these are new funds authorized by ESSA in next year's budget, it's important to note that there are still political hurdles to overcome.

The proposal, which faces steep political hurdles, mirrors the Obama administration's NCLB waiver system but is a marked departure from the bipartisan measure that was approved by the education committee back in 2012.

Some bigger political hurdles loom.

Once a pattern is set, the legislature will continue to fund, absent some big economic catastrophe, or other political hurdle.

Techniques to speed best practices for overcoming both the technical and the sometimes stickier political hurdles are going to be key to making «green» really work on a large scale.

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.

Other options for leaving include withdrawing from the United Nations treaty that undergirds the agreement — which could happen immediately — or sending the Paris pact to the Senate for ratification, an impossible political hurdle given the makeup of the chamber now.

The resistance from some MLSs is less about the concept of merging and more about the confounding logistical, technological, and political hurdles inherent in such a massive undertaking.

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

The New York Times commented: «Australia's experience with CCS mirrors technical, financial and political hurdles experienced in the United States.»

Once the nominations hit the Senate, many face political hurdles.

As a scholar of risk innovation, what I'm not sure about is how SpaceX will handle some of the less obvious social and political hurdles they face.

SANTIAGO / VANCOUVER South America's lithium triangle is the lowest - cost place to produce the vital battery ingredient, but political hurdles will require Japanese and South Korean companies to make big investments to crack into the region as they chase Chinese rivals who have tied up resources in other parts of the world.

In the case of nuclear reactors, industry experts say China is underestimating how tough it will be for its novice exporters to compete with the foreign companies that helped create its industry, given the political hurdles, safety...

So once we've overcome that philosophical / political hurdle (as we did, collectively, back in the 40s when the NSLP began), why not require Nanny feed our kids as healthfully as possible?»

They also have to clear some serious technical and political hurdles.

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.

* Cut scores: How does one judge pupils» overall performance in relation to «how good is good enough» for, say, promotion from third to fourth grade or high school graduation, bearing in mind the intellectual hurdles of «career and college readiness» and the political hurdle of excessive failure rates, especially during the transition to new standards and higher expectations?

Jennings describes the motivations of those who authored these federal reforms, the political hurdles they faced, and the ultimate success or failure of those initiatives.

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.

Another political hurdle: much as I dislike National Health Care, that is a wild card in this mix.

Figurative compositions, like the nude portrait that commands the booth of Tyburn Gallery (Dance of Many Hands, 2017), imagine a utopian Zimbabwe - of - the - future in which LGBTQ culture, Afropunk, and internet culture thrive (no matter the social and political hurdles faced in the present day).

Michael Levi at the Council on Foreign Relations has posted a helpful review, which is generally positive, casting the improvements in the climate plan in recent months as the best approach given the legal and political hurdles that any United States environmental and energy regulations have to surmount.

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.

There are political hurdles, but we believe they can be overcome.

In clearing its political hurdle the new EPA site ditched this report, along with the National Assessment.

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.