The phrase "obstacles to development" is a correct and usable sentence in written English.
You can use it to refer to anything that stands in the way of progress or growth, such as economic, political, or physical barriers. For example, "The country is facing several obstacles to development, such as a lack of resources and a weak infrastructure."
The designation, issued under a court order, imposes obstacles to development, so developers in this fast-growing community are fighting back, calling it patently unfair.
Despite these continuous presidential pledges to protect wetlands, in recent decades, as more and more people have moved to coastal and waterside properties, the economic benefits from developing wetlands (and political pressures on obstacles to development) have significantly increased.
Mr. Mosites said old traffic patterns and other constraints had posed obstacles to development.
Potential buyers will be discouraged by New York's power to create zoning and regulatory obstacles to development, she said.
They then unsuccessfully tried to sell it to Equity Office, a major national real estate investment trust, but the obstacles to development were significant.
When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
Corruption is seen as a big obstacle to development in Liberia, which remains one of the world's least developed countries nearly a decade after the end of a 14-year civil war.
(Olague was considered an obstacle to development projects).
At nearly every turn, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains an obstacle to development in the Middle East.
"Crime is the primary obstacle to development in Latin America," Mr. Maduro said in an interview.
Overpopulation was once considered a curse and an obstacle to development, but this has changed.
