The White House s current occupant is a more formidable obstacle to reform, but change is coming.

Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.

In place of a president whose only qualification for the office was his father s name, we now have one whose intelligence and vision overcame the formidable obstacle of being the exotically named son of an African Muslim.

The challenges ahead are formidable.

Each of these tasks is formidable.

The obstacles to disarmament are formidable.

Against these formidable minuses are three pluses.

The new government will face formidable challenges.

The task facing the IMF is formidable.

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The organization of three simultaneous elections on 30 January was a formidable feat, matched by a formidable statement of support from voters throughout most of Iraq.

The first obstacle is cost.

Western education was an obstacle.

Moreover, his wife is a star in her own formidable right.

The challenges confronting international peace and security are formidable and many.

Achieving the target of environmental sustainability is also a formidable challenge.

But it is not the only obstacle.

The Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, despite being banned, is a formidable organization.

The palace was formidable, with walls strong enough to withstand artillery fire.

Commercializing existing research findings is a formidable task for many developing countries.

We understand that the task is formidable, that it will be costly.

It has clout and respect in its own region with formidable fighting forces.

He was a formidable politician and a moderate politician, a friend of all.

But Taiwan remained a huge, seemingly impossible obstacle.

Nor is the presence of America s formidable might in today s Iraq comforting to them.

Currently, NPT faced formidable challenges which could jeopardize its entire process and multilateral principles.

But it was by no means the only obstacle.

The quality of Arab education is also an obstacle.

The one major obstacle to Italian unity remained Rome.

Formulated in such terms, the European challenge seems even more formidable than the American one.

The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel s colonization of Palestine.

The only obstacle remaining to Palestinian leaders are the Americans.

The biggest obstacle until now has been the United States.

Borders shouldn t be an obstacle to their chance of safety.

Yet trade barriers were an obstacle to recovery and growth.

Concerns such as these are likely to increase as China emerges as a formidable development player.

In earlier times with no formidable adversaries in the political arena, this was a harmless affectation.

It poses, for example, no obstacle whatsoever to a criminal investigation.

MDR is the most important obstacle to controlling TB in Europe

Actions of transnational companies could sometimes be an obstacle to development.

While China may be a ravenous importer of Latin American commodities, it is also a formidable competitor.

In addition, the administrative difficulties of instituting a comprehensive wealth tax are formidable, raising questions about fairness.

And, in the spring of 2009, the presidential campaign in Iran evinced a formidable craving for freedom.

Thus, it becomes a formidable challenge to the European Union to offer anything but welcome to Ukraine.