Sentence examples for one roadblock from inspiring English sources

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The two are immediately drawn to each other and begin dating, but there is one roadblock on their way to the altar: Iñaqui has always preferred men.

The fight to find out just why three men were detained and tortured in a Syrian prison cleared one roadblock on Wednesday, after a court rejected an appeal from the Canadian government.

Ahold's relentless acquisition drive has already run into at least one roadblock from the Federal Trade Commission, which in 1999 stopped, on antitrust grounds, the company's proposed takeover of the Pathmark chain, which has over 140 stores, mostly in New Jersey and New York.

WASHINGTON —As President Obama's effort to overhaul the health care system seems to hit one roadblock after another in Congress, he is counting on Senator Max Baucus, a political shape-shifter and crafty deal maker who is not fully trusted by either party, to help him clinch his top domestic priority.

On the way to their Sept. 15 wedding, the couple faced more than one roadblock, including a scheduling conflict with a jazz festival that would have drowned out their ceremony, and delays in getting her wedding dress.

Instead, we put up one roadblock after another".

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Even so, there is still one more roadblock on the highway to banking reform, and that is a dearth of talent in Washington.

But there could be at least one powerful roadblock.

Mullin sees the bill as a bipartisan measure that faces just one big roadblock: the UFC.

One significant roadblock that prevents such applications is the need of thermal cyclers that are often too expensive and bulky.

One potential roadblock remaining is a pending lawsuit brought by Hartz Mountain Industries, a large office developer and one of the unsuccessful bidders for development rights at the site.

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