But Taiwan remained a huge, seemingly impossible obstacle.

All this would seem to be insurmountable if the basic economics were not clear.

And Israel s emphasis on its Jewish identity has become a formidable obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.

At the height of America s power, Russia had resigned itself to the apparently unstoppable encroachment of NATO on the Soviet Union s former sphere of influence.

This emerging values gap is not an insurmountable obstacle to geostrategic rapprochement.

If the question of where to start seems overwhelming you are at the beginning, not the end of this adventure.

So, the assignment I've been given may be an insuperable obstacle for me, but I'm certainly going to try.

This might prove to be an insurmountable obstacle to realizing the Obama administration s vision of a nuclear weapons free world.

In these circumstances the demand for proof of land ownership or title to land is often an insurmountable obstacle.

There is now a solid opposition in Venezuela and less distance between those who rule and those who want to rule.

In particular, the temptation for governments to use inflation to reduce the real value of public and private debts may become overwhelming.

Of course there is a risk that you will leave the Šediváčkův long race with an uncontrollable desire to try it too.

A new global market has been created that ignores the divide which seemed so fundamental for so many decades between East and West.

The European Commission spent the last three years trying to tighten the exchange rate criterion, which would make it an insurmountable obstacle for eurozone candidates.

It is difficult to avoid the implication that Europe s need for immigrants is likely to combine with massive, and probably irresistible, migratory pressure from developing countries to the developed world.

This margin shrank dramatically during the campaign, and the left retained power by the skin of its teeth, but the lead ultimately proved insurmountable.

The fact that some countries may find one of these (or other) items difficult to provide data for is a handicap but not an insuperable one.

However, unanswered questions about his sister's death, his mother's involvement with his diabolical therapist, and his own madness all prove to be difficult if not insurmountable obstacles.

Some accuse the Syrian security services and leadership of assassinating Mr. Hariri because he became an insurmountable obstacle to their influence in Lebanon.

ln most villages, this would be a calamitous thing... but when there is no minister present... it is perfectly proper, according to the laws of Scotland...

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.

The manipulation of international cooperation in the area of human rights was an insuperable obstacle to the realization of all the rights of Cuba's people and it transformed the international debate on human rights into an instrument of domination.

With rising unemployment, poverty and drug abuse, our societies face an almost insurmountable challenge which threatens the ability of our youth to achieve their true potential.

The discriminatory regulations that make it difficult for the South to gain access to international markets and the ever changing conditions that make the flow of funds to the South almost impossible are, inter alia, factors that make the gap with the North almost unbridgeable.

I never understood why he was arrested, but I did understand that my brother was motivated by commitments and feelings towards his people that only a person of his particular character can exhibit.

As the global agenda shifted to concerns about global warming, inequality, and the stability of the international system, the US no longer seemed to be a shining example, but rather an immovable obstacle on many of these issues.

In short, because the availability of government support depends on achieving seemingly precise targets, the incentive to aim for apparent rather than real success becomes an almost overwhelming temptation.

Yes, the girl falls, absurd to fall, even the earth with its compulsion to take unto itself all that falls must know that falling is absurd, yet the girl falling isn't myself, or she is myself, but a self I took of my own volition unto myself.