Sentence examples for daunting barrier from inspiring English sources

In short, accessible chapters, Crystal gives the historical background to spelling irregularities that might otherwise seem arbitrary or random — "The origins of spelling difficulties in English lie in the fact that there are far more sounds in the language than there are letters" — and encourages readers to see spelling not "as a daunting barrier" but as a "voyage of exploration".

The burden of disease on poor countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, is simultaneously a humanitarian catastrophe, a daunting barrier to development, and (through its effects on population) a first-order threat to critical regions of high biodiversity.

River dams control water flow and help generate electricity, but they're a daunting barrier to fish swimming upstream to spawn.

BERLIN--Any young German scientist hoping to carve out an academic career faces a daunting barrier: the notorious post-Ph.D. Habilitation requirement.

Trump faces an even more politically daunting barrier: many fellow Republicans.

"They are quick studies and look at 'I don't know how to do that' as an invitation to learn, instead of a daunting barrier".

Space, time and, as he put it, "all that money hanging up in the air" are daunting barriers.

In dozens of capital cases in recent years, appeals court judges, some of whom have ruled in favor of the death penalty many times, have complained that Congress and the Supreme Court have raised daunting barriers for death row prisoners to appeal their convictions, and in many cases the judges have taken on their colleagues.

Regulatory requirements pose daunting barriers to the introduction of radiological innovations.

For Westerners, China presents a notoriously daunting language barrier.

Even the specter of term limits was not too daunting a barrier for him to make a third run at New York City's highest office.