Sentence examples for posed obstacles from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mosites said old traffic patterns and other constraints had posed obstacles to development.

The "nonindigenous" label ultimately blocked certain Indonesians from the highest government, military, and academic positions; it also posed obstacles to their obtaining passports and identity cards.

Similar claims have also posed obstacles to investigating the Bush administration's use of brutal interrogations and secret prisons in the years immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Although richly endowed with natural resources, Yunnan remained an underdeveloped region until relatively recent times; for centuries the ethnic, religious, and political separatism of the province posed obstacles to the efforts of a central government to control it.

It then levels to become slightly rolling terrain that was once under water; the swampiness of the northwest, around Toledo, posed obstacles to settlement before drainage made the land more arable.

Other cardboard structures spring up and fall apart, posing obstacles or providing shelter.

These problems pose obstacles to the eradication of torture in China".

Derelict boats are environmental and navigational hazards, leaking toxins and posing obstacles for other craft, especially at night.

But numerous outstanding differences in the bills could pose obstacles to that timetable, including an emotionally charged dispute over provisions related to the insurance coverage of abortions.

But part of the blame lies with a system of tacit complicity between critics and the industry that poses obstacles to the recognition of independent films.

But the things that make him compelling could also pose obstacles -- boyishness is a tough quality to ride into middle age.