Your words caused my over-hasty imagination to raise obstacles where none exist.

Still, Russia has previously given its blessing to pipeline projects only to raise technical obstacles later.

But Andersen's decreased ability to pay has raised other complicated legal obstacles to a settlement.

He also said the bill would increase costs for the city and "raises obstacles to firms wishing to do business with us."

It was her special object to raise domestic obstacles to a private interview between the husband and wife during the earlier hours of the day.

North Korea, officials point out, has promised many times before to submit to nuclear inspection, and always raised new obstacles when the moment seemed near.

Even at this late stage, Serbia has raised new obstacles, challenging once more the jurisdiction of the court.

Ethical rules within the medical field had also raised obstacles to experimenting on minors, but they are now being modified.

We shall not achieve this by raising obstacles to work.

But even if a political consensus develops for higher standards, opponents are again raising obstacles, and a chief argument is safety.