Sentence examples for enormous impediments from inspiring English sources

"Despite the enormous impediments, we have been able to get out the ballot boxes and vote," the Catalan leader, Artur Mas, said on Sunday, after months of tense legal wrangling between Madrid and Barcelona forced Catalan leaders to water down their plans for a formal referendum.

It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it.

While there are enormous political impediments to the US managing direct discussions with Hamas -- which only contributes to a sense in the Middle East that America's affections in this mess are one-sided -- the US can "remove the veto" on other nations dealing with Hamas to see how its views and parameters can be heard or potentially moved through some kind of engagement.

The revision also retains the requirement of a 24-hour waiting-period — which has been an enormous practical impediment for women seeking abortions in states that have this rule.

Without a change in Medicaid federal law by Congress to allow 17-bed treatment facilities or more to become Medicaid certified to deliver an Obamacare benefit as intended at lower cost than a hospital stay, an enormous structural impediment to CountyCare will be imbedded in the system.

The Metropolitan Opera has a big impediment to producing Handel operas: its enormous auditorium.

Roberts says that one impediment to digitizing the sector is the enormous amounts of capital required.

That enormous trade deficit with China presents the single biggest impediment to a true manufacturing recovery for the U.S.

Unified labour markets under shortening travel times have also brought enormous disparities in income within individual cities, a source of tension, and an impediment to the hoped-for social pact.

Though Kav Mashve has helped to place approximately 500 Arab university graduates in companies throughout Israel, members are the first to admit that they still have far to travel to reduce the enormous problem of Arab unemployment and underemployment which, if not sufficiently addressed, remains as a major impediment to Israeli's security and its future.

This seems to have been an impediment to real mystical experiences; the ruthlessness of this psychological technique buried every attempt at ecstatic exaltation under an enormous inferiority complex.