Additionally, Transparency International has identified corruption in the education sector as a major stumbling block to achieving Universal Primary Education in Africa.

It is necessary to block the light from the parent star in order to reduce the glare, while leaving the light from the planet detectable ; doing so is a major technical challenge.

At that time the dangers of atomic power was not fully understood, Borst believing the major stumbling block was the price of uranium.

If a clot is large enough to block one or both femoral arteries, there may be hind leg paralysis because the major source of blood flow to the hind leg is blocked.

Declaring itself as independent of any major power block of nations, the Philippines is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Things were not helped by the very close proximity of Hitler's Reich Chancellery, just one block away in Voßstraße, and many other Nazi government edifices nearby as well, and so Potsdamer Platz was right in a major target area.

In its last three seasons, UPN was one of only two of the major broadcast networks ( Pax TV ( now Ion Television ) was the other ) not to air a children's programming block on weekend mornings.

Palatul Telefoanelor (" The Telephone Palace ") was the first major modernist building on Calea Victoriei in the city's centre, and the massive, unfinished communist-era Casa Radio looms over a park a block away from the Opera.

North America is a large continent that extends from the tropics north into arctic areas, and has no major east-west mountain range to block air flow between these two areas.

Drugs that interfere with NMDA receptors block LTP and also have major effects on some types of memory, especially spatial memory.

The school was built in 1958 with major building work, at a cost of £ 1. 2 million, in 1998, adding the science block and the sports hall.

The district has very heavy snowfall ( sometimes enough to block major roads ) and strong winds in winter, and its turbulent rivers are the source of abundant hydroelectric power.

The past decade has seen a redevelopment of Stateway Gardens into a new, mixed-income neighborhood dubbed Park Boulevard ; the completion of the new central station of the Chicago Police Department a block east of the campus ; and major commercial development at Roosevelt Road, just north of the campus, and residential development as close as Michigan Avenue on the east boundary of the school.

The inefficient management of pari-mutuel betting system was a major stumbling block to broadening the fan base.

Both services run regional forecasts on one station and have a block of combined local weather and traffic stations for major metropolitan areas.

Hollywood's five major studios, which controlled most of the nation's movie theaters, initially attempted to block the growth of " talking pictures ".

South Acton was known as " Soap Sud City " as it was the major area for all Laundry in West London, the last laundry closed in the late seventies and is now a block of low red brick flats.

On 3 July 2009 a major fire swept through Lakanal House, a twelve storey tower block.

The community's last major fire occurred on October 7, 1987, destroying nearly all the remaining buildings along the two block business district located on the south side of Route 66.

On May 8, 2007, approximately a quarter-block of historic buildings in the 100 block of South Washington Street was burned in a major fire.

The Eixample grid introduced innovative design elements that made it exceptional at the time and even unique among subsequent grid plans: a ) a very large block measuring 113m by 113m ( 370 x 370 feet ) far larger than the old city blocks and larger than any Roman, Greek blocks and their mutations ( see drawing below ); b ) a 20 m ( 66 feet ) road width ( right of way ) compared to mostly 3 m in the old city c ) square blocks with truncated corners and d ) major roads perpendicular and diagonal measuring 50 m ( 164 feet ) in width.

In 1901, Newkirk suffered a major reverse when nearly a whole block of its thriving downtown burned.

While the general area has seen some growth as a result of this tourist activity, the borough proper has suffered several setbacks in recent years including the closure of an Evenflo plant that was a major employer and a 2002 fire that leveled an entire block of the borough's downtown area.

The issue of latency and bandwidth between CPUs and co-processors has usually been the major stumbling block to their practical implementation.

The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.

These basic ideas concerning the nature of religion were, Adams believed, some of the major keys to the understanding of history and the movement of society.

Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.

The historian can only point out those lines which were major enough to find reflection in our limited evidence, and must hope that future excavations will enrich our understanding.

Further cultural subdivisions according to tool types, such as Olduwan or Mousterian or Levalloisian help archaeologists and other anthropologists in understanding major trends in the human past.

" The Oriole Way was a belief that hard work, professionalism, and a strong understanding of fundamentals were the keys to success at the major league level.

Deane and J. R. Thomson write this valid conclusion, “ The Book of Obadiah is occupied with one subject – the punishment of Edom for its cruel and unbrotherly love conduct towards Judah ...” One can link this idea of punishment to one of the major prophets “ Ezekiel ” who “... interprets the exile to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem as deserved punishments for the sins of those who themselves committed them .” Verses 3-7 in Obadiah explain to the reader the reason for the punishment theme, “ Confidence in one ’ s power, intelligence, allies, or the topographical features of one ’ s territory is often mentioned as an attribute of those who foolishly confront the Lord and are consequently punished .” Although destruction is vital to understanding Obadiah, it is of note to understand the destruction being a consequence of action.

Core concepts are: ( 1 ) That critical social theory should be directed at the totality of society in its historical specificity ( i. e. how it came to be configured at a specific point in time ), and ( 2 ) That critical theory should improve understanding of society by integrating all the major social sciences, including geography, economics, sociology, history, political science, anthropology, and psychology.

In modern times, geology is commercially important for mineral and hydrocarbon exploration and for evaluating water resources ; it is publicly important for the prediction and understanding of natural hazards, the remediation of environmental problems, and for providing insights into past climate change ; plays a role in geotechnical engineering ; and is a major academic discipline.

Recent research in hydrological modeling tries to have a more global approach to the understanding of the behaviour of hydrologic systems to make better predictions and to face the major challenges in water resources management.

Thus three major themes in 19th century mathematics were combined by Lie in creating his new theory: the idea of symmetry, as exemplified by Galois through the algebraic notion of a group ; geometric theory and the explicit solutions of differential equations of mechanics, worked out by Poisson and Jacobi ; and the new understanding of geometry that emerged in the works of Plücker, Möbius, Grassmann and others, and culminated in Riemann's revolutionary vision of the subject.

A major question in understanding language acquisition is how these capacities are picked up by infants from the linguistic input.

A major breakthrough in the understanding of materials occurred in the late 19th century, when the American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs demonstrated that the thermodynamic properties related to atomic structure in various phases are related to the physical properties of a material.

You can gain an understanding of the type of landscape, the location of urban places, and the location of major transportation routes all at once.

By understanding the physical and chemical properties of proteins and other macromolecules at the atomic level in various cells in the kidney, novel therapeutic approaches can be designed to combat major renal diseases.

The field is a major academic discipline, and is also important for mineral and hydrocarbon extraction, knowledge about and mitigation of natural hazards, some Geotechnical engineering fields, and understanding past climates and environments.

Atkinson's work was instrumental in furthering the understanding of the three major phases of the monument's construction.

Systematics is also of major importance in understanding conservation issues because it attempts to explain the Earth's biodiversity and could be used to assist in allocating limited means to preserve and protect endangered species, by looking at, for example, the genetic diversity among various taxa of plants or animals and deciding how much of that to preserve.

Quantum chemistry, the application of quantum mechanics to the understanding of valency, is a major component of theoretical chemistry.

This is in addition to the marking of the occasion at the Vatican's Gregorian University itself and at major centers of Christian-Jewish understanding around the United States.

In more recent times Joseph Kerman, Oliver Neighbour, Philip Brett, John Harley, Richard Turbet, Alan Brown, Kerry McCarthy, and others have made major contributions to increasing our understanding of Byrd's life and music.

A major component of PASSIA ’ s activities is its Roundtable Meetings Program, and with over 100 publications to its credit, many of which include the minutes of these meetings, PASSIA has proved most successful at promoting understanding of international relations as they affect the Palestinian struggle for justice and peace.

* Managing a public-private effort with major segments of the agriculture community and UN agencies for better understanding of the promise, challenge and economics of bioenergy ; and

In the case of Enron, several major banks provided large loans to the company without understanding, or while ignoring, the risks of the company.