Sentence examples for religious obstacle from inspiring English sources

After the green uprising in Iran and the Arab Spring, we can see clearly that this was one area where the Bush administration was right: there was no cultural or religious obstacle to the spread of democratic ideas in the Middle East; only, it would have to come about through the people's own agency and not as a gift of a foreign power.

Any papal trip to the Holy land is a diplomatic and religious obstacle course, as the Vatican wants to foster relations with Israel and other countries in the region, as well as the Jewish and Muslim communities themselves.

Among the religious obstacles to donation is a belief by some traditional Jews in physical resurrection, and a conviction that the body should not be desecrated before burial.

That's because behind our common-sense goals lie a complex set of obstacles to navigate: state and federal laws, insurance reimbursement practices, hospital regulations, and the traditions and hierarchies of existing medical practice, not to mention deep-seated cultural and religious obstacles.

Family planning among Pakistani women has not yet become widespread, due in part to cultural and religious obstacles.

However, there is a trend among young women towards taking up smoking despite cultural and religious obstacles [ 4].

Both nations position themselves as regional leaders, yet rigid politics, extreme religious views remain obstacles.

What does it say that rich Democrats can't fathom why working class Americans might look askance at an elite that's presided over a long slow social breakdown and often regards their fundamental religious convictions as obstacles to progress?

At their eighty-minute audience Paul told Mr Gierek: "The Catholic Church does not ask for privileges but only for the right to be itself and carry out its religious mission without obstacles.

can also, like sociocultural and religious factors, present obstacles to accessing and using health services [ 20].

Polio remains a significant worldwide health problem because "(technological solutions) can be hampered by political, religious and societal obstacles".