Hurdles

"There are still near-term hurdles including a potential sovereign downgrade for Italy and the relentless squabbling among European politicians over the expanded European Financial Stability Facility bailout fund," Westpac said in a note to clients. ❋ John Phillips (2011)

Near-term hurdles for the euro zone include a potential Standard & Poor's downgrade of its member states, possibly as early as this week, and the resumption of Greece's protracted bailout talks with the troika of its international lenders that could clear the way for €130 billion $168.27 billion in fresh aid for the debt-strapped country. ❋ Anusha Shrivastava (2012)

Sounds entirely workable … Any means of storing renewable energy, even for a few hours or so, gets past one of the main hurdles – that such sources as wind and sun are unpredictable and/or not 24hr. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of the under reported hurdles is shifting large cargo/container/ro-ro ships onto an oil alternative becuase that is how the world trades. — tom ❋ Unknown (2008)

Still, the upshot of hurdles is getting over them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The most interesting thing that people say about potential hurdles is a sentence that starts with, 'I don't have any problem voting for — fill-in-the-blank: a Hispanic, an African-American, a woman — but I worry that other people do.' ❋ Unknown (2007)

Virginia Powell's 12.68 in the women's 100 hurdles is second on the world list. ❋ Unknown (2006)

USATODAY. com - Roundup: Gold dished out in hurdles and 1,500 ❋ Unknown (2004)

Toby Stevenson leads three Americans in the pole vault final, and the 110 high hurdles is wide open after Allen Johnson's crash-and-burn in the preliminaries. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But the short term hurdles to financing and management might not be Bolivia's biggest problems. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I can certainly see reasons why you might want to actually have certain hurdles to voting (just as there are certain hurdles to running for political office), as tests of interest, which is a pretty good proxy for how informed someone is. ❋ Unknown (2002)

But, as you note, we have strongly rejected certain hurdles to voting. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Bernanke says the country's biggest long-term hurdles aren't the recession or the rescue-driven jump in deficits, but an aging population, schools that leave too many students untrained, and a health care system that's both costly and inefficient. ❋ Unknown (2011)

CEO, WidePoint, commented, WidePoint was able to return to profitability in the second quarter, despite the short-term hurdles that impacted our business during much of the first half of the year.

I intentionally used the word hurdles (and not roadblocks) because my clients have so far been able to jump over the new obstacles thrown their way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Inc., those are short-term hurdles for a company focused on the long race. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"However, for those willing to wait out near-term hurdles we would advise buying shares of Delta, which are among the more inexpensive in our coverage and carry with them relatively low liquidity risk." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The future opportunity for our careers and our businesses has never had so much potential in the long-term, once we get over these short-term hurdles and adjust to a more challenging business environment. ❋ Unknown (2009)