Sentence examples for posed obstacles to 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.

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

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.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad made a similar point when he asserted, "The Israeli restrictions still pose obstacles to the improvement of the economy".

The vote was 5 to 4, with an unusual lineup of justices, in a decision that, beyond the context of cable television, could pose obstacles to government efforts to regulate content in new media.

Now that army of lobbyists is turning its attention to the Medicare prescription drug conference, where the House-passed measure must be reconciled with a Senate bill that poses obstacles to drug imports.