chief obstacle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofchiefandobstacle
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chief
adjective[before noun]
uk/tʃiːf/us/tʃiːf/
most important ...
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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 ofchiefandobstaclefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thechiefobstacleto such a law in the first part of the twentieth century was opposition from settlers and farmers.
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Thechiefobstacleconcerned the system of musical representation required to express the sense of transcendental becoming.
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This suggests that thechiefobstacleto the supply of e-participation facilities is the desire of governors to continue using public office for their corrupt and private benefit.
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The lack of sufficient training institutions is, at the moment, thechiefobstacleto providing training for disabled men.
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I believe that thechiefobstacleto efficiency in the use of labour in factories lies in the word "redundancy".
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The farming problem will obviously be ourchiefobstacle.
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I think thechiefobstaclein their way is the financial one.
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What was thechiefobstaclethat blocked its road in the past as well as the path of domestic peace and progress?
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Thechiefobstacleto all this is the attachment of officials to conventional behaviour.
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Thechiefobstacleto its functioning is trade union monopoly.
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Thechiefobstacleis the inherent individualism of those who conduct the big economic enterprises of this country.
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Does he not realise that he has become thechiefobstacleto expanding the railway network?
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Thechiefobstacleto some moderate improvement of the salary scale, and especially of minimum salaries, in all districts will thus be removed.
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Here, as in so many other of our prison problems, as has emerged from this debate this afternoon, public indifference is ourchiefobstacle.
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His advice to them has been that they should recruit extra technical staff, the lack of which has been thechiefobstacleto progress.
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Thechiefobstacleto the building up of the proper kind of staff seems to lie in the sense of security due to the short-term engagement offered.
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The lack of proper accommodation for putting on plays, art centres and the like has been thechiefobstaclein the past to development in the arts.
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Thechiefobstacleto the reclamation of much of this land is, of course, the difficulty of finding the necessary money, labour and equipment to do the work.
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Thechiefobstacleto the more widespread adoption of the material is its cost, which increased production and improved methods of manufacture will no doubt tend to reduce.
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Several projects have been proposed to extend rail service back to these areas, but lack of funding has again been thechiefobstacleto implementation.
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