Insisting on pushing an explanatory factor back a level is often an indication of a strong prior commitment of some sort.
A big factor back then is that housing was inexpensive.
In my experience, travelling abroad to foreign conferences carries a definite kudos factor back at base way beyond any home-stationed affair.
If there's going to be a factor holding back wider success, other than language, it may well be quality control.
Business groups and foreign investors also complain of prefectural voting disparities as a factor holding back structural reform of Japan's economy: rural folk are more averse to change than are city dwellers.Locals are well aware of voting disparities.
Germany's statistics office, Destatis, also cited weak exports as a factor holding back growth.
That would make sense, since a lack of charging infrastructure is widely believed to be a factor holding back sales of electric vehicles.
BBC World Service economic correspondent Andrew Walker says concerns about banks were a central element in the eurozone financial crisis and in some countries, their weakness remains a factor holding back economic growth.
That delay has, in turn, been a factor in pushing back decisions on American troop reductions.
The recent marketing campaign is a factor in drawing back about half the number of tourists who came in the 1980's.
