Indeed, only three difficult hurdles remained.

There are five hurdle heights on most standard hurdles.

A credible growth compact would help to overcome immediate hurdles.

To implement it, however, a number of hurdles remain to be overcome.

In that respect, major hurdles that were identified five years ago persist.

Hurdles in converting informal remittance systems to formal systems through registration or licensing

This means that three large steps are taken in between all of the hurdles.

The hurdles to further monetary policy action are high, but they are largely self imposed.

High hurdles to major shifts in policy direction force officials to make a convincing case.

The differing constitutional requirements of States will be one of the major hurdles to be overcome.

The Agency faced many hurdles, not least among them the austerity measures introduced in the mid 1990s.

Taken together, these factors present a formidable set of hurdles to the sustainable development of small island developing States.

Saudi Arabia seeks to run its oil production independently, while Iran scares off potential investors with bureaucratic hurdles and corruption.

One of the most impending hurdles for religious freedom has been Egypt's ID card system and its requirement of religious affiliation.

If China surmounts these hurdles and does eventually become the world s predominant economic power, globalization will, indeed, take on Chinese characteristics.

Serious political hurdles still confront the peace process, and we must have the full cooperation of the parties to overcome them.

This is good news, particularly for the poor. But many hurdles remain, and now the world must focus on three critical issues.

These sessions included discussion of technical hurdles when using native languages on the web, such as lack of keyboards to type necessary characters.

When that phrase was inserted in the Treaty, it appeared as if the hurdles to effective European banking supervision could hardly be set higher.

This is not just because they are much more expensive, but also because there are massive technological hurdles to overcome to make them efficient.

He noted that negotiations between the European Union countries and Iran concerning the latter's atomic programme were facing some hurdles and causing some concern.

Major hurdles include poor transport connectivity and stifling non tariff barriers, which impede growth and undermine welfare in Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and north eastern India.

The formation of a unity government is only the first of many hurdles Iraq s new government must clear if it is to build a durable peace.

Angelo F. Taylor (born December 29, 1978) is an American track and field athlete, winner of 400 meter hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics.

But two steep hurdles still need to be overcome the intergovernmental conference and ratification through the national parliaments or by means of a referendum in all member states.

CFLs and other advances can take us part of the way, but there are massive technological hurdles to overcome before fossil fuels generally become less attractive than greener alternatives.

Congress may also prove less willing to remove hurdles to Russia s admission to the World Trade Organization, given what is widely judged to be its leaders anti democratic behavior.

Countries of every sort will face requests to do their part to overcome hurdles to a new global trade accord. Tariff and non tariff barriers will need to come down.

Edwin Corley Moses (born August 31, 1955) is an American former track and field athlete, who won gold medals in the 400 m hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics.

After breaking his own world record the following year, Moses lost to West Germany's Harald Schmid on 26 August 1977 in Berlin, his fourth defeat in the 400 m hurdles.

More needs to be done urgently to address the hurdles of development, which range from finance to debt, trade, global governance and systemic issues, the environment and science and technology.

The formal decision to create a tribunal for the Khmer Rouge represents a major achievement after a decade of diplomatic effort. To implement it, however, a number of hurdles remain to be overcome.

Given these hurdles, the obvious way to improve European defense capabilities is by coordinating the efforts of individual countries, the European Union, and NATO to create a set of enhanced collective defense capacities.

Unlike the cases of even primitive biological and nuclear weapons, the components and know how to produce simple chemical weapons are widely available, and the financial and technological hurdles are much less problematic.

If China surmounts these hurdles and does eventually become the world s predominant economic power, globalization will, indeed, take on Chinese characteristics. Democracy and human rights will then likely lose their luster as global norms.

The OPCW Director General has rightly pointed out that the know how to produce simple chemical weapons is widely available and that the financial and technical hurdles in that regard are much less problematic.

To seize these export opportunities, however, developing country producers and exporters need to overcome a number of hurdles, including the need to conform to the OA production standards and conformity assessment procedures of the consuming country.

Lending, too, is being transformed by technology. Crowdsourced funding and peer to peer lending schemes give borrowers the opportunity to circumvent many of the hurdles of traditional banking including, in some cases, collateral requirements and credit ratings.

Russia continues to place hurdles before American proposals for sanctions on Iran, has signed with it lavish energy contracts, and is about to sell it advanced aerial systems aimed at thwarting a possible Israeli or American attack.

This project will focus on increasing the capacity of senior Government officials in five regions to identify gaps and hurdles in achieving the internationally agreed goals regarding health, gender equality, population and development and socially vulnerable groups.

An overriding challenge moving forward, therefore, will be to encourage more companies to develop this important communication, understanding hurdles that include language issues as well as fundamental differences in business culture and attitudes with respect to implementation versus communication.

At the same time, governments will have to implement policies aimed at guiding investment toward specific diseases. For example, increased NIH funding, extended market exclusivity, and relaxed regulatory hurdles in the US resulted in a renaissance in antibiotic drug development.

This inter institutional and multisectoral commission would also strive to improve the link between work at the local and national levels, ensure a high level commitment to overcome bureaucratic hurdles, and facilitate local coordination between the UN system and the Government.

At the same time, the capacity of the Government, due to the limited human resources available, as well as the logistical difficulties of inter island transportation, are also proving to be major hurdles in the implementation of the recovery and reconstruction programme.

There are some who would urge that we all remain calm (good advice in most circumstances) and somehow take comfort in the fact that North Korea still faces many serious technical hurdles before it can successfully add nuclear weapons to its considerable conventional arsenal.