Sentence examples for direct obstacle from inspiring English sources

This violence is a direct obstacle to the DRC's national development as a whole.

The continuously ongoing changes within the social insurance office and the health care were sometimes conceived of as a direct obstacle to personal contact.

Plainly, in some countries, such as Myanmar and Zimbabwe, legal abuses and over-mighty regimes are direct obstacles to growth.

Opponents of gerrymandering fear the voices of voters may be washed out in the upcoming presidential election, even as statewide restrictions that have been intensively litigated pose potentially more direct obstacles to voting.

JON R. PURNELL, FOR REASONS 1.4 (B, D). 1. (C) Summary: Despite an often rocky Uzbek-British relationship, British sources in Tashkent indicate that the GOU has not imposed direct obstacles to study programs in the UK.

That was because while the New Deal decisions were direct obstacles to Roosevelt's economic recovery plans, grabbing the public's attention by threatening its welfare, the federalism revolution of the Rehnquist court has played out in highly technical decisions involving obscure, even elusive doctrinal areas like the 10th and 11th Amendments.

This "Stage I" CPC would particularly address factors underlying the high mortality rates, and in addition would test and disseminate feasible approaches to overcoming the more direct obstacles, which could be greatly scaled up in the "Stage 2" CPC (2011-2015).

While the British Council has experienced some problems with in-country English language training programs, and students have faced greater hurdles in obtaining British visas, there do not seem to be direct GOU obstacles preventing students from studying in the United Kingdom.

Instead of altering the cement hydration, CAs were observed to serve as direct electrical obstacles that resulted in the enhancement of BR.

In public, the State Department, at a senior level, should strongly object to pressure on American journalists, with the same energy it has directed at obstacles to the free conduct of other American businesses in China, or violations of intellectual-property and human rights.

You take control of the lead character by lifting his strings with your left hand and then swiping left and right to direct him past obstacles; you can also jerk your arm in the air to make him jump.