greatest obstacle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandobstacle
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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obstacle
noun[C]
uk/ˈɒb.stə.kəl/us/ˈɑːb.stə.kəl/
something that blocks you so that movement, going forward, or action is prevented or made ...
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(Definition ofgreatandobstaclefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Perhaps thegreatestobstacleis the need for an electrical microcentrifuge and stable power supply.
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This imprecise and incomplete nature of raw knowledge is thegreatestobstacleto automatic rule extraction.
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They showed that liver sinusoids were respectively 14, 17 and 23 % narrower than muscle, lung and kidney capillaries, and thus likely to provide thegreatestobstacleto continued migration.
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Thegreatestobstaclecomes from those whom we are attempting to benefit.
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Unlike coal, thegreatestobstaclethat our oil and gas industry has to overcome is nature itself.
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That competition of the bad houses is thegreatestobstaclein the way of improvement under present conditions.
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Thegreatestobstacleto the improvement of their social and moral education was the cramped and confined conditions in which they lived.
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That is thegreatestobstaclenow to prison reform.
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Hostility to rising productivity and to co-operation to achieve higher rising productivity is thegreatestobstacleto all our aims.
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In this connection, we all know that thegreatestobstacleto such mobility is the lack of housing.
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I think protectionism is thegreatestobstacleto the development of competition and competitiveness among economic operators in those markets.
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The unfashionable truth is that thegreatestobstacleto peace in the middle east is not a breakdown in diplomacy.
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What is thegreatestobstacleto complete success?
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He himself is now thegreatestobstacleto this nation's well-being.
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Secondly, as others have said, housing benefit is the singlegreatestobstacleto people taking up work.
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And what is the singlegreatestobstacleto confidence?
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What in fact is thegreatestobstacleto that aim?
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As we move into the 1990s, thegreatestobstacleto employment growth is likely to be lack of skills.
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Does he further agree that thegreatestobstacleto increasing exports is the negative view adopted by the conveners of the unions in opposing innovation?
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I asked him what was really thegreatestobstacleto the increased production of these absolute necessaries of war.
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