Sentence examples for absurd barriers from inspiring English sources

"We will tackle the absurd barriers to mixed-race adoption which trap many non-white children in care.

As well as tackling the "absurd barriers" to mixed-race adoption, he said, the changes will see more youngsters fostered pending approval of full adoption.

The Tumblr blog, titled "Shit People Say to Women Directors", is designed as a platform "to expose some of the absurd barriers women face in the entertainment business", according to its creators.

The prime minister has vowed to tackle "absurd barriers to mixed-race adoption" which he says trap many children in care.

Similarly, industrialized countries must reform trade policies that create absurd financial barriers to the integration of poor countries' economies into the global marketplace.

It's absurd to observe that there are barriers to success, and then argue that those very barriers were the reason that the few who succeeded managed to do so.

To reduce this to the absurd, imagine the National Basketball Association if immigration barriers kept Steve Nash (Canada), Tony Parker (France) and Dirk Nowitski (Germany) from plying their trade in the world's foremost basketball league.

Crude though it seems, the carving shrewdly captures my feelings that it's absurd to arbitrarily erect an enormous physical barrier between people.

Richard Hawkes, chief executive of the charity Scope, said: "It is absurd that disabled people who face the biggest barriers to employment are receiving the least amount of support.

He liked to say that "creating barriers between Odigo and AOL users is as absurd as, say, denying telephone contact between people who use MCI and those who use Sprint".

"A multibillion-dollar valuation for a company that is in a business with virtually no barriers to entry and is younger than my toddler is absurd," Sucharita Mulpuru, Forrester Research retail analyst, wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday morning.