However, obstacles and challenges still remain.

But these countries still face significant obstacles to development.

But such factors as sexual exploitation and violence continue to present obstacles.

There are many obstacles and challenges.

In spite of the successes mentioned above, there are still many obstacles to be overcome in the monitoring and evaluation programme in order to bring greater accountability to the NAPs.

Stereotypic attitudes and discriminatory practices remain persistent challenges and continue to undermine important gains, including in the fields of education, health and work.

The vast majority of developing countries continued to face grave challenges in creating sustainable human settlements.

There will be many stumbling blocks on the road ahead.

Considerable obstacles remain on achieving decent standards of social development.

The bears are still reproducing.

There are several internal obstacles to African trade.

Nonetheless, although the size of a territory should not prevent its self determination, major obstacles persisted in small territories.

Yet many challenges remain.

However, a few significant restrictions still remain.

The ideology is out there. It is not diminishing.

Differences, however, remain regarding the size of electoral districts.

There are still gaps between male and female salaries.

While some countries are making a major effort to improve education levels among indigenous peoples, many obstacles continue to impede indigenous peoples' access to education.

The technological gap was still there, but began closing rapidly.

But there are still some gaps when it comes to marriage.

We have made progress.

Nevertheless, a significant gap between policy and practice, however, remains.

These obstacles must be overcome.

As always in Europe, there are legal and political obstacles to change.

There are still some uncontacted tribes residing in the Amazon Rainforest.

Nonetheless, an overarching need for more development assistance remains.

Moreover, inter sectoral coordination has yet to be strengthened.

For many of those making the crossing, the journey is far from over, and they are acutely aware of the heavily securitised borders to be crossed, the humiliating conditions they ll still have to endure.

Despite this, there are still obvious differences between eastern and western Berlin.

Eritrea, on the other hand, continued to perceive the existing deployment by Ethiopia as a provocation.

Moreover, there was still a gap between assessed needs and available funds.

Lifts were still measured in pounds, the bench press was the first lift, and there were still no suits, power belts, or fancy wraps.

Such developments reflect growing confidence in Africa s economic prospects and, thus, in its ability to escape the resource curse. But these countries still face significant obstacles to development.

Yet great obstacles still remain to early action , as illustrated by the crisis in Darfur, where United Nations and other international actors have encountered numerous difficulties in speedy deployment, despite the sustained and high level attention the situation has garnered.

However, there are still some outstanding issues that need urgent attention.

None of this means that we will not still face significant obstacles.

Noting that, despite the progress achieved, difficulties remain in the implementation of the settlement plan,

While some progress has been made in that direction, serious problems remain.

Overall, the picture remains mixed some more progress, but still some delays headway being made, but serious lags in some areas.

There are still refreshment facilities today.

Things look different in Asia, where the US not only remains present, but has increased its commitments.

As Mahienour points out, of the 41,000 political prisoners and those unjustly in jail, many faces and names remain unknown.

However, some groups of countries continue to struggle for a durable solution to their serious debt problems.

The security situation shows that the assistance of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is still needed.

Serious obstacles still impede the path to those elections, as it is now doubtful whether the disarmament calendar will be adhered to, given the fresh controversy over the laws promulgated by President Gbagbo and the reaction of the Forces Nouvelles.