Sentence examples for throwing up hurdles from inspiring English sources

In short order, however, Iraq was reneging on its promises and throwing up hurdles to inspections.

But some Republicans could throw up hurdles.

Such unprecedented levels of taxation would throw up hurdles to entrepreneurship, family formation and upward mobility.

"And Cuba will throw up hurdles in the talks, because they don't want to lose control".

The first America welcomed the poor, the tired, the huddled masses; the second America demanded that they change their names and drop their native languages, and often threw up hurdles to stop them coming altogether.

If family-friendly socialism creates mommy tracks and throws up hurdles to female advancement, family-unfriendly mixed-economy capitalism just makes it really, really hard for middle-income parents to balance work and life, find decent childcare and/or get by on a single income, and have as many kids as they would like.

It stayed off the ballot there because California's secretary of state (the state's top election official), who can ease the path of ballot initiatives or throw up hurdles in their way, is a Democrat and he kept it off.

Other states have thrown up hurdles.

If the sentiments these delegates have about Trump is even close to the feelings seen in the Wisconsin polls, it's not hard to imagine a scenario in which Trump-fearing Cruz supporters throw up hurdles for the frontrunner at the convention, even if Trump manages to win the nomination outright.

For nearly two weeks, Paul has commandeered Patriot Act opposition in the Senate, throwing up procedural hurdles and dragging out debate to fulfill a promise to supporters that he would force the end of the NSA's bulk collection of phone data.

And women complain that even at those hospitals that perform abortions, staff members are often hostile, demeaning them and throwing up bureaucratic hurdles.