Sentence examples for constituted an obstacle from inspiring English sources

Last week Israel announced plans to build 1,400 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Ms Ashton said constituted "an obstacle to peace and threaten[ed] to make the two-state solution impossible".

Although the correct position of the TLR13 dimer has been identified in the crystallographic data as judged by the high value of Z-score in PHASER (McCoy et al., 2007), and phases were calculated up to 4.87 Å resolution, the low number of NCS copies of TLR13 in the asymmetric unit of the crystal constituted an obstacle for the effective density improvement merely using the traditional methods.

Although toxicity (largely due to inhibition of Notch signaling) has constituted an obstacle to the clinical development of GSIs for AD, one compound remains in a phase III human trial for AD, and other compounds are being tested as anti-cancer agents.

Low levels of trust between providers and consumers and lack of management support constituted an obstacle to building a positive patient safety culture.

From now on, however, "banking secrecy will not constitute an obstacle to exchanging information".

During classroom discussion, students and major league players discuss what constitutes an obstacle, from the smallest to the largest, and effective ways to face it.

The massifs constitute an obstacle to traffic; roads and railroads traverse them by means of tunnels and viaducts, which are costly to build.

It cites the EU's position that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory are "illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution impossible".

"The UK has a clear position on Israeli settlements … settlements are illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflimpossibleible," the advice says.

"Banking secrecy will not constitute an obstacle to exchanging information," said the joint statement, which came at the end of the weekend visit to Singapore by the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble.

Philippe Lalliot, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry, said in a statement on Monday, "Settlement activity is illegal under international law, hurts the confidence necessary for a return to dialogue and constitutes an obstacle to a just peace founded on the two-state solution".