1.   Often, the main obstacle between them is the prospect of dealing with forbidding galleries charging forbidding commission fees.

2.   Safety has been the main obstacle.

3.   The main obstacle now is the United Nations.

4.   The main obstacle to the widespread use of abatement techniques is the significant and variable national costs which are incurred.

5.   The main obstacles in this area lay in analysing and approaching suitable targets.

6.   While the implacable opposition of Gen Aoun is the main obstacle in his path, there are plenty of other difficulties.

7.   Palestinian guerrillas, based for the most part around Sidon, proved to be the main obstacle to a full dissolution of the Lebanese militias.

8.   Cristiani claimed that FMLN demands for a purge of the armed forces remained the main obstacle to a ceasefire.

9.   It was widely thought that discussions over his release had been the main obstacle in the talks between Meyer and Ramaphosa.