Sentence examples for roadblock to development from inspiring English sources

Informality is, like corruption itself, considered a roadblock to development or bump in the road towards good governance.

Now that access to government has stopped, and [NGOs] are seen as an active roadblock to development.

Today, as the country moves toward democracy and opens up to the world, its barely functioning universities are one of the largest roadblocks to development.

Winning Congress "is the only way that the country can realize the change promised by President Fox and do away with the roadblocks to development," said the PAN's national leader, Luis Felipe Bravo Mena.

Meanwhile, powerful political players are attempting to remove roadblocks to development.

Working with older women and men globally to develop their capabilities, reduce their vulnerabilities and alleviate the challenges within their communities, HelpAge International has proven time and again that older persons are not roadblocks to development.

A roadblock to the development of stand-alone microscale biomedical and chemical analysis systems is the relatively high heating power requirement of the microscale reactors, which typically exceeds the capability of low cost batteries.

Many have called POWER a roadblock to crucial development in the district, but Browne said that it was the process the group objected, as opposed to the project itself.

Power of education "Armed conflict remains a major roadblock to human development in many parts of the world, yet its impact on education is widely neglected," said Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO.

The inability to recapitulate the complex structure of astrocytes and maintain their quiescent state in vitro is a major roadblock to further developments in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

With awards as high as $1.1 million, they will aim to address roadblocks to economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.