Sentence examples for raise roadblocks from inspiring English sources

Efforts to alter voting rules are not new, although concerted efforts to raise roadblocks for voting, instead of trying to make it easier and expand the franchise, haven't been this evident since the days of the poll tax.

Although many Republicans — including Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa — support the legislation, other figures in that party have been raising roadblocks.

Cruz said he plans to try to raise procedural roadblocks to prevent Democrats from eliminating the defunding provision in the House-passed bill.

"To its credit, Lyft was more responsive, but in the end they also raised unreasonable roadblocks.

While the "birthers" are getting more publicity for questioning whether President Obama really was born in Hawaii, the "tenthers" are exerting more influence over public policy by raising one more roadblock to health care reform.

In the face of such variability, some have argued that 'anything less than release of actual source code is an indefensible approach for any scientific results that depend on computation, because not releasing such code raises needless, and needlessly confusing, roadblocks to reproducibility' [ 22].

It was a last-ditch effort after several other tax options to raise money for homelessness ran into roadblocks.

They launched a campaign of strikes and roadblocks after the government raised taxes on soyabean exports to nearly 50%.

But you want to be there when they run into a roadblock, and a lot of times they won't raise their hand if they run into a roadblock.

Norquist is best known for persuading politicians to sign a quite different kind of pledge: a promise never to raise taxes, which proved to be a roadblock in Congress's debt-ceiling and budget negotiations.

The Senate has been the chief roadblock for raising the minimum wage, which has been a top priority for Democrats for more than a year.