Sentences with phrase «serious obstacle to»

In black communities, where the epidemic is most acute, fatherlessness is a far more serious obstacle to upward mobility than racism.

Reviewing the case law, Ankersmit concludes that neither extraterritoriality nor unilateralism pose any serious obstacle to the Union legislature's ability to use its Treaty competences to enact intra-EU and extra-EU trade measures incorporating PBMs.

In the meantime, the above articles may show that our existing laws aren't as serious an obstacle to electronic transactions as might appear.

That's a serious obstacle to doing real science.

This presents a serious obstacle to our efforts against puppy mills.

Debt can present a serious obstacle to personal freedom.

Because ``... there was too much competition, and the high price of its products had become a serious obstacle to growth.»

These provisions, which have gone virtually unnoticed in the voucher debates thus far, represent a much more serious obstacle to voucher programs because they do not discriminate on the basis of religion.

Puntung's cervix, tightly constricted owing to the phase of her menstrual cycle, is proving a serious obstacle to the catheter.

To determine whether inadequate responses by fellow team members may well be an unappreciated serious obstacle to successful resuscitation of athletes collapsing with cardiac arrest during competition, investigators reviewed 29 available videos from 1990 - 2017 of sudden circulatory arrest (SCA), or loss of consciousness.

The remaining Republican mayoral candidate, Rev. Michel Faulkner, was not considered a serious obstacle to Catsimatidis winning the primary, according to the attendee.

This has been, for a long time, a serious obstacle to the recognition that Christianity arose in a Jewish milieu and was, to start with, deeply involved theologically and culturally in the Jewish world.

Another glance at the deductive outline reveals a very serious obstacle to movement in the sermon: how does one get from 2b to main point II?

That is why he has successfully blocked any serious attempt to replace the butcher Assad's regime in Syria, and that is why Russian policy has been a serious obstacle to keeping Iran away from a nuclear weapon.

The settlements also constitute a serious obstacle to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace.»

Moreover, during the Great Moderation, such imbalances were not seen as a serious obstacle to stabilizing the economy.

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.

«In the eyes of most Orthodox,» the report continued, «these new ecclesiological and controversial anthropological innovations in the Lutheran world constitute radical challenges and serious obstacles to the Orthodox - Lutheran theological dialogue and to its original aim, namely, the promotion of mutual ecclesial rapprochement and, eventually, of Church unity.»

Likewise Father Jarlot, who declares: «There are structures that are unjust in themselves, because they are serious obstacles to realization of the legitimate aspirations of millions of people and to the necessary social and economic development of their country.»

It constitutes one of the most serious obstacles to the evolution of a harmonious global society, both within national societies and on the international scene.

The results reveal serious obstacles to using the method in medical applications.

For fifty years, the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learning.

Although many urban students are academically successful, some struggle to overcome serious obstacles to learning The presence of poverty, socio - economic challenges, high dropout rates, and dependency on free and reduced meals are challenges that can hinder the success of underrepresented students.

These topics were identified as being serious obstacles to meaningful reform in the 2000 American Youth Policy Forum report, High Schools of the Millennium.

But there are serious obstacles to that actually happening any time soon:

But a lot of borrowers face serious obstacles to lowering their rate.

Their absence leaves in place serious obstacles to free movement in the Union.

Nancy McCarthy analyzes the results in the current issue of the California Bar Journal, and notes that «minority attorneys continue to face serious obstacles to success in the legal profession from initial job opportunities to career advancement, and they remain grossly underrepresented in top - level private sector jobs.»

(The bifurcation of family law between the provincial and superior trial courts is one of the more serious obstacles to justice.)

Not exact matches

Activist investor William Ackman's drive to draft Hunter Harrison to run the railway has serious momentum, despite the obstacles — such as an incumbent CEO.

The most serious potential obstacle to fast growth in cannabis employment is the Trump Administration.

The danger of creating an obstacle to all drug enforcement is more serious, but manageable.

A more serious obstacle Chesterton's cause will have to overcome is his polemical writings about non-Catholics.

He is called various things, but apparently the belief that the Messiah was to come of David's line from Bethlehem remains a serious obstacle.

Serious study of a single text has to work against the obstacle of an assumed knowledge of the whole.

This anecdote communicates a simple but dynamic truth about growth that is often overlooked — that a major dreamsquelcher which causes us to postpone our potentializing indefinitely is the belief that «I can't do what I'd really like to do because...» If you feel some serious inner or outer obstacles to making creative changes in your life, welcome to the human race!

The serious obstacle here is that increasingly governments are (often voluntarily) losing the regulatory instruments to control the powerful corporations and global governance is increasingly the arena of private business actors.

It was a big hit, overcoming the serious obstacle that new desserts have in being welcomed to my tradition driven family.

As ESPN's Bob Harig noted above in his tweet, that Tiger is forbidden from «all activities,» including sitting in a chair and answering questions, portends a more serious obstacle for his ability to get back to playing golf.

Chelsea's chances of securing a deal to quickly offload unwanted striker Diego Costa to AC Milan appear to have hit a serious obstacle over the player's apparent wage demands.

Many of these families face serious obstacles — from poverty to unemployment to single parenthood.

There is a Quick Gear Guide to help you choose the right clothing and footwear for the obstacle race, which is very important reading if you want to avoid being at a serious competitive disadvantage due to wearing clothes that are made of cotton and soak up the water or wish to avoid sustaining an injury because you have chosen the wrong type of footwear.

Since, on the whole, Shia have the characteristic of Standing against oppressors (even oppressing in other countries, as if Shia see it as their duty (in all conscience) to defend oppressed people), and they are considered as big trouble for the supporter countries of ISIS (and ISIS) where they see Shia as a serious obstacle against them (in their ways of oppressing and plundering oppressed people (indirectly)...

There is some reason to suspect that the process of weaning out 7 candidates should be an obstacle to success if we are going to divide voting on the bases of a Facebook level preference rather than serious in depth criteria.

While there are obstacles to overcome such as getting CVs together and Parliamentary Assessment Boards (PABs), there is a much wider plan that needs to be instigated if this is a serious career option.

A penetrating injury from shrapnel is a serious obstacle in overcoming battlefield wounds that can ultimately lead to death.Given the high mortality rates due to hemorrhaging, there is an unmet need to quickly self - administer materials that prevent fatality due to excessive blood loss.

One serious obstacle interferes with the application of Bayesian statistics: It is difficult to estimate how typical a voice is, because there are no statistical norms on the distribution of voice features.

Schooling was now becoming a serious obstacle, as teachers didn't know how to handle him, and he had to wear a helmet at all times to protect himself from his own furious, beating fists.

Speakers and participants discussed such issues as the preparation of young scientists with training suitable to global challenges, the inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities to gather insights and innovations that might otherwise be missed, supporting scientists everywhere throughout the world, and ensuring that scientists can do science in a globally connected way without serious obstacles due to differences in standards or ethics.

College Station, TX (Scicasts)-- A penetrating injury from shrapnel is a serious obstacle in overcoming battlefield wounds that can ultimately lead to death.