At year's end a prepublication review of the paper uncovered a possible snag, but Wiles expressed confidence that he could clear it up in the near future.
His darker-skinned younger sister, Shirley, represented a possible snag, of course, but then he and Shirley had never been particularly close, and anyway she was busy with her own life and her own friends.
But now there is a possible snag in the plan: Mr. Draghi, who is expected to lead that overhaul, was at least nominally the overseer of M.P.S. while it was digging itself into a deep hole.
Pitino said that a possible snag in the negotiations could be the severity of the penalties recently imposed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association against U.N.L.V. for allowing a booster to give money to Lamar Odom when he was being recruited by the university.
In other words, China is ideally placed to be the world's middleman: close enough to the frontier of innovation to keep up with the latest developments, and skilled at adapting new ideas for the mass market.The Middle Kingdom as middlemanYet for all their bullishness, Messrs Breznitz and Murphree detect two possible snags.
Several possible snags lurk.
Take along a quality flashlight or a headlight that is able to light up paths, terrain, and show possible snags like tree roots, rocks, etc. if you're heading along a trail to a stargazing spot.
And there is another possible snag.
One possible snag is the governor's scepticism over European monetary union.
It helps to protect clothes from creasing, button impressions and possible snagging on embellishments.
A possible snag in the debate schedule developed Saturday because the Commission on Presidential Debates still had not signed the two campaigns' 32-page agreement.
