Training an educated workforce, a challenge cited by both Mr. Imran and Mr. Cisneros, may be a more daunting obstacle for a city that has long struggled with high dropout and low college completion rates.
While Clarke hopes for an upset Sunday at La Costa Resort & Spa, he will face a daunting obstacle in Woods, who looked primed to win for the third time this year and for the seventh time since last August.
Page A15 SANTORUM PRESSURED TO QUIT Rick Santorum is confronting a daunting obstacle: a rising chorus of Republicans calling for the presidential contest to end so the party can turn its full attention to defeating President Obama.
Snaking through the countryside, the Mara River is a daunting obstacle the wildebeest must cross in their search for food, risking injury, or death by drowning, crocodiles or opportunistic lions and leopards that lay in wait.
Any would-be cure for Alzheimer's disease or other brain disorder faces a daunting obstacle: the blood-brain barrier.
He also faced a daunting obstacle: Mr Chávez's government had banned him from holding public office because of dubious allegations of corruption.
His own economic advisers concede that the unemployment rate, currently 9.1 percent, is unlikely to drop substantially over the next year, creating a daunting obstacle to re-election.
They have circumscribed his life, and turned ordinary undertakings — going on a trip, visiting friends, doing errands — into a daunting obstacle course.
He has advocated a public plan similar to the federally funded Medicare plan (which is only for retirees) to compete with private plans, but even that is open to negotiation.That scaled back goal, like many of Mr Obama's ambitions, faces a daunting obstacle: money.
Celtic's 1-1 drawithth Spartak in Moscow has, predictably, made them favourites for qualification for the next stage, at a stroke transforming the widespread perception of the tie from a daunting obstacle into a hurdle the height of a molehill.
