Nicholas D. Kristof is clearly right: Too many young children from poor families face diminished opportunities by the time they're just 2 years old, and we should do more to help them overcome the formidable obstacles before them ("For Obama's New Term, Start Here," column, Jan . 24.
We need to do better in identifying, testing, and evaluating additional measures that could be effective in enabling these children to overcome the formidable obstacles they too often face, and in enabling more adults who are poor to have a better chance of succeeding in the labor market.
How to overcome these formidable obstacles -- and how to close the immunization gap -- is the subject, year-in and year-out, of much debate and hand-wringing.
Jeremy Corbyn's followers face the formidable obstacle of recalcitrant MPs.
How can a service company overcome such formidable obstacles?
Even the chief lobbyist for the plan admits that it must overcome formidable obstacles, including the city's image.
The young tenor overcame formidable obstacles — the inevitable pressure of a Met début, the added pressure of replacing a legend, the Antarctic ice-floe tempos of James Levine — to make a powerful impression.
The opposition, however, must overcome formidable obstacles.
Mr. Pastrana has had to overcome formidable obstacles to keep the peace effort on track.
Her passion overcame the most formidable obstacles and we all came to believe that our future and and the future of the State of Israel would be secure as long as she stood at the helm with Charles.
The tone of his journals is that of a man who believes that discipline and character can overcome formidable obstacles, and that such efforts are what great accomplishments require.
