Sentence examples for decisive hurdle from inspiring English sources
The mine is expected to create more annual carbon emissions than New York City and is being fiercely resisted through legal action by traditional owners, whose opposition could prove the decisive hurdle for Adani gaining finance to deliver the project.
Haim Saban's dogged pursuit of a foothold in the German television market cleared a decisive hurdle yesterday, as creditors of the bankrupt KirchMedia empire accepted his $1.3 billion offer for control of ProSiebenSat.1, one of the country's leading broadcasters.
Contact cues, signals that are bound to the surface of the sender's body, represent the final decisive hurdle in the initiation of mating behaviour [5] and have been described to exist in many insect species [6], [7] as well as in crustaceans [8].
In 1996, Farsoun et al. identified decisive hurdles to the use of modern contraceptive methods in Jordan.
Yesterday Hurricane Fly's trainer, Willie Mullins, saddled that exceptional mare, Quevega, to win the Ladbrokes World Series Hurdle in decisive fashion.
The 23-year-old South Yorkshirewoman sprang from her blocks and surged clear of the field, crossing the finish line on the blue Olympiastadion track a decisive winner of her 100 metres hurdles heat in 12.93 seconds.
Gail Devers, a two-time Olympic champion in the 100 meters, beat seven rivals out of the blocks and went on to a decisive triumph in the 60-meter hurdles, finishing in 7.86 seconds.
With surprising and decisive ease, the Senate cleared the last major hurdle today to passing a trade bill with China and handing President Clinton one of his top remaining foreign policy goals.
But other equally good judges, who have already backed Sweet Wake to win the 2007 Champion Hurdle, believe that his speed will prove decisive.
Not even the Church of England could spend so long lumbering up to jump a hurdle, and then collapse in a twitching heap at the decisive moment.
These contests today may not be decisive in terms of settling the nomination, but they very much represent a mental hurdle in this race.
