The horse balked at the jump.

Finance is another great barrier.

But burdensome regulations are the biggest barrier.

The closed nature of Japanese society and the dearth of ideas are partly attributable to the linguistic barrier.

Not all stories make it to news headlines, and many remain hidden behind language barriers.

Segregated housing has led to huge shantytowns and settlements lacking sanitation and other basic conditions essential to a life with dignity.

Segregated schooling is a barrier to integration and produces prejudice and failure.

But our increasingly shortsighted financial markets stand between the two.

Differences in indirect taxes such as VAT pose another way in which borders become obstacles to trade.

If the Channel has been such a barrier, durable bonds across the Atlantic seem implausible.

And everywhere I go the barrier is We want this, but we need it in our language.

In the event of a meltdown, the thick concrete pad is the only barrier between highly radioactive molten fuel and groundwater.

Enduring hostility between India and Pakistan, the region s largest economies, remains the key barrier to such a breakthrough.

First, a majority of Japanese do not want to change Article 9, as opinion polls consistently show. Article 9 remains a cherished symbol of Japan's peaceful posture, and a barrier against possible re militarization.

The reaction of other Asian countries, especially China and South Korea, also creates limits on Constitutional revision.

Article 9 remains a cherished symbol of Japan's peaceful posture, and a barrier against possible re militarization.

Excited by the fact that Gladiator was in front, the mare had risen at the barrier a little too soon and had struck it with a hind hoof.

This fallacy is repeated so often by ignorant leaders in rich countries that it has become a major barrier to progress.

True, there is more that we could do today, but do not, possibly because of cost.

Both understood that for centuries the English Channel has been a formidable geopolitical barrier to a durable sharing of interests between Britain and France.

With minimal health risks compared to tobacco smoking, PNVs face only one real barrier to use smokers willingness to switch.

In a world in which geography is a diminishing barrier to business, can cooperatives sufficiently distinguish themselves as a viable alternative model?

Meanwhile, officials erected a green wall along the Pope's motorcade route, preventing him and other motorists from seeing the urban poor who live beyond the barrier.

President Barack Obama s administration is championing the virtues of trade but, in developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

Such a commitment would also give crucial confidence to poor countries that climate change control will not become a barrier to long term economic development.

Although the participants are not professional storytellers, their commitment and their acting engage the audience and provoke laughter and emotion, as if the language was not a barrier anymore.

By destroying Iraq as a counterbalancing regional force, the US dealt a major blow to its traditional Gulf allies, for whom Iraq served as a barrier against Iran s ambitions.

Not only will politicians influence be towards monetary excess, which of course is a serious enough matter for a bank whose primary mandate is price stability, but also the excess will constitute a serious barrier to structural reform, which is essential for European prosperity in a competitive global economy.

Also, while more advanced life forms, like humans, cannot mate with members of other species, microbial evolution is less constrained by this species barrier.

But if this is the barrier to widespread use, efforts to lower costs should be pursued, for this is no excuse to deny women the benefits of screening.

On the other hand, one can argue that, until now, Chinese corruption was more of a tax than a paralyzing force, and that dramatically changing the rules of the game could by itself catalyze a sharp drop in output.

Since the national government prohibited the shipment of medical treatments via mail in 2014, the geographic location of the patient, with respect to medicine, can be yet another barrier to obtaining medication through these means.

After the event, the blogger noted that despite the limited number of invitees for the conference, which he called a barrier caused many local social media users to express their disgust with the process and the exclusion it caused , there was a bright side

Although the sheer scale of the transformation means placing a substantial burden on both the public private and sectors, the current financial crisis should be used as an opportunity rather than a barrier for launching it.

Surely a twenty first century fisherman does not want to see the basis of his or her living degraded and destroyed, nor does a modern conservationist want to ring fence the environment and stop people from making a living.

A news report from the website O Democrata adds that the floods broke the protective dikes that served as a barrier and prevented the entry of salt water in the areas of fresh water where the base of the diet of Guinean was cultivated and already grown.

But if regulations are not well tailored to the various types of market participants and to how markets actually work, they can choke off opportunities that would otherwise benefit investors and the economy.