Sentence examples for costly obstacles from inspiring English sources

Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: "Most people take having a bank account for granted, but without access to one basic tasks such as receiving wages or benefits and paying bills can become huge and costly obstacles to overcome, particularly for people who are often at a vulnerable point in their lives.

Thanks to Republican efforts to roll back Roe_ — _shuttering abortion clinics across the country, forcing women to travel long distances for the procedure, and imposing lengthy waiting periods and other costly obstacles — well-off women remain the only ones who can count on getting an abortion today.

Western companies that have invested heavily in China often did so under the weight of costly obstacles, like lobbying, and they may now face competition from newcomers whose cost of entry to the market will presumably be lower, since barriers will be done away with under the world body.

Americans did not vote for higher taxes to fund a redistribution of wealth; drastic cuts in funding for our troops; the end of secret ballots for workers participating in union elections; more costly obstacles to American energy production; or the imposition of government-run health care on employers and working families.

Devious governments have to invent ever more complicated and hence less effective ways of manipulating results.The lack of voter data is a costly obstacle everywhere.

"It would have been a phenomenal special effect, but it kept proving to be a gigantic and costly obstacle," he said.

Right now the only version of the bill the textile makers would permit is one that says Africa can only import duty-free into the U.S. if it first buys all the fabric, thread and yarn from U.S. factories, then ships it to Africa to be sewn, and then ships it back to the U.S. to be sold -- a costly obstacle course that would prevent any new investment in African factories.

This might be true for the USA, where out-of-pocket payments are costly and pose an obstacle to the use of health-care services for people without health insurance or with statutory (as opposed to private) health insurance.

However, if a physical obstacle blocks the participant's desired path, but the possible bypass route for the obstacle is very costly in terms of metabolic energy or time, it is observed that in practice, the walker may attempt to pass over or under the obstacle by making further measurements.

Fury over the war in Iraq and the oil-for-food scandal had only recently died down; and many Republicans in particular still regarded the UN as an unnecessarily costly, disastrously managed, corruption-ridden obstacle to the free exercise of American policies in the world.

The fact that he, like Hughes, is currently out of work means there would be no need for lengthy and potentially costly negotiations over compensation, an obstacle which tends to suggest another popular choice with supporters, Everton's David Moyes, would be a non-starter.