For many foreign companies, this year has been marked by other obstacles, further tainting the business climate.
Throughout the first 10 months of his presidency, Mr. Obama has grown accustomed to sailing through what often appear to be dispiriting times, marked by major obstacles and perceptions that he is flailing.
The battle between McAuliffe's administration and the legislature has been a protracted one, and marked by unexpected obstacles: Democratic state Sen. Phillip Puckett resigned earlier this month, which gave the GOP control of the state Senate and the ability to insert the budget language blocking a potential Medicaid expansion.
If this river is marked by numerous obstacles, the aim is to minimize the time taken by the fish to enter the pass, so that the migrating fish reach the reproduction areas on time.
From a changing legislative landscape, to a dramatically evolving cultural and social backdrop, the path of women entrepreneurs is marked by sometimes surprising obstacles and often inspiring triumphs.
The women in turn do their best to ignore each other while seeking companionship elsewhere: the wife, a restless, succulent beauty who wouldn't be out of place in a Tennessee Williams play, retreats into another man's arms, while her sister-in-law keeps tabs on a young neighborhood girl, Batti (Pumidika Sapurni Peiris), for whom life is an obstacle course marked by poison and grasping old men.
In order to prepare this tracking phase, some area of interest should be specified the detected obstacles should be marked by specifying some tracking window encompassing each of them.
A political representative, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define an obstacle maker vs. facilitator, is unfit to be the representative of the people they serve.
But the extra $100 the new Panasonic model will cost poses an obstacle in the TV business, marked by teeny margins and suicidal price-cutting.
For the three families, it was a year marked by painful adjustments, happy surprises, small signs of progress and bureaucratic obstacles.
