"That's been the hardest hurdle for me to get over in my career," she says, nodding her head vigorously.
Jerusalem remained the hardest hurdle, with the most intractable problems concerning sovereignty over what the Jews call the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Haram al Sharif, and the status of the Old City and its immediately adjoining areas, the senior administration official said.
The hardest hurdle is starting the company, then finding people to share the vision and work for free, and then to find funding.
The hardest hurdle for the cast - who are from countries such as Italy, Austria and Albania - is that most of us are unknown in this country so it will take time for Americans to become familiar with us, our dreams and ambitions.
I've come so far and accomplished so much and I still struggle with this one little thing that seems so simple, but is the hardest hurdle for me to get over - Making my brain catch up to my body.
One of the bigger evolutions in education has been the push to get kids to become more computer-literate, yet one of the hardest hurdles has been making the process of learning and writing programming languages less dry.
"If the company culture is not truly women-friendly, yet management needs to have a token woman to show that they are trying, then that token woman becomes one of the hardest hurdles for the other women.
Probably the hardest emotional hurdle to get over is the very real fear that after working hard to lose weight, you could gain it all back.
Negotiating lower trade barriers on sensitive farm products has been made harder by hurdles attached by Congress to its recent approval of the fast-track legislation required to clinch trade agreements.
Since information on off-label uses of drugs is usually preliminary and sometimes scant, comparing new drugs to off-label medicines is going to give biotech companies a very hard and hazy hurdle to beat.
