Sentence examples for obstacles to passage from inspiring English sources

The votes removed some of the few remaining political obstacles to passage of a measure to overhaul the nation's bankruptcy system.

The chief sponsor of the bill, Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, said he saw no obstacles to passage, though he cautioned that problems could always arise on the floor.

An intensive, detailed stakeholder analysis during the design process could pinpoint rising issues or threats, minimise obstacles to passage, build coalitions, and channel information and resources to promote and sustain reform implementation [ 49, 51].

An agreement on the size of the awards is the biggest obstacle to passage in the Senate, where Democrats have enough votes to block action.

The support expressed by Mr. Bloomberg, prosecutors and police officials is likely to carry significant weight in the Republican-led State Senate, which is the key obstacle to passage of the bill in Albany during this year's legislative session.

WASHINGTON — The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said Tuesday night that he and a group of 10 Democratic senators had reached "a broad agreement" to resolve a dispute over a proposed government-run health insurance plan, which has posed the biggest obstacle to passage of sweeping health care legislation.

But conservative dissension wasn't the only obstacle to passage last time around.

On February 24 , 2011 the Senate, which was thought to be the biggest obstacle to passage, approved the bill in a 25 21 vote.

Although the trade deals -- which appear likely to send jobs abroad, reinforce corporate tax havens in Panama and threaten the safety of workers in Colombia -- are unpopular with the public, they enjoy far more support in Congress, where the chief obstacle to passage has not been the terms of the deals, but the treatment of American workers who would be laid off from the resulting offshoring.

Since the conductance of a vessel is proportional to the fourth power of the vessel radius (Hagen-Poiseulle law), a slightly reduced diameter would pose an obstacle to passage.

Yet the passage of the bill in the National Assembly and support from within Islamist political parties suggest that the obstacles to its passage in the Senate cannot be ascribed to religious opposition solely.