Sentence examples for official obstacles from inspiring English sources

Someone from a small rural village who wants to live in a big city such as Beijing or Shanghai faces many official obstacles.

Other absurdities abound: innocuous usage of music in the background of home videos or student projects is technically an infringement and official obstacles are set up to prevent it.

In late 2002, the case was declared closed as a "circumstantial group identification," and in 2008, after confronting official obstacles to the search unit's plan to bury trace remains at the Punchbowl Crater military cemetery in Hawaii, Horst and I were among speakers at an interment ceremony at the Newseum in Washington.

Despite official obstacles barring most observers and aid workers from western Myanmar, two months after dozens were killed in sectarian clashes and tens of thousands of Muslims were forced from their homes into "resettlement camps," a television crew from Britain's Channel 4 News managed to report from the region on Tuesday.

In her statement to the court, which reads a little like a book proposal, Ebadi says her book would discuss "how I became a lawyer, a judge and a law professor despite the obvious and often official obstacles women in Iran have had to face".

After the towers fell, however, officials confronted obstacles that went beyond just the collapse of the command center.

Throughout this period, officials put obstacles in the way of family reunification, limiting the right of guest workers to send for grown children, for example.

But with Iraqis believing that Mr. Obama, as president, would move faster to withdraw American troops, Iraqi and American officials said obstacles to a security agreement appeared to be fading.

Blanket restrictions on the movement of capital are much rarer than they used to be, but assorted official or unofficial obstacles are still often put in the way of foreign investors.

The official said past obstacles included not only misgivings over the civil liberties implications, but a reluctance to commit enormous manpower to sift through the resulting masses of information.

It should be emphasized that a national coordination body should not just be a technical advisory section, but should have a mandate to examine compliance with official policy and obstacles to policy implementation.