insuperable barrier
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinsuperableandbarrier
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insuperable
adjective
uk/ɪnˈsjuː.pər.ə.bəl/us/ɪnˈsuː.pɚ.ə.bəl/
(especially of a problem) so great or severe that it cannot be defeated or dealt ...
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barrier
noun[C]
uk/ˈbær.i.ər/us/ˈber.i.ɚ/
a long pole, fence, wall, or natural feature, such as a mountain or sea, that stops people from ...
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(Definition ofinsuperableandbarrierfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This said, wartime restrictions and government parsimony proved aninsuperablebarrier: large numbers of children sought but were refused admission in the 1940s and early 1950s.*!
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I cannot believe that finance is aninsuperablebarrierto some plan of that kind.
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I should have thought cost was not aninsuperablebarrier.
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The definition of "reasonable certainty" is, to me at least, a seeminglyinsuperablebarrier.
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It has been held that collection at the source is aninsuperablebarrierto graduation.
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There seems to be some impression that there is at the present moment someinsuperablebarrierto such men being enlisted.
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I do not see this as aninsuperablebarrier.
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So it is also absurd to say that we are imposing aninsuperablebarrieragainst the entry of husbands and male fiancés.
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The cost has always been advanced in the past as theinsuperablebarrier, and no doubt it will be again today.
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The holding of an off-licence is not regarded as aninsuperablebarrierto appointment as sub-postmaster.
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That seems to us to raise aninsuperablebarrier.
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Thisinsuperablebarrierthreatened her livelihood, and, in order to overcome it, she took in as partner a man.
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There is noinsuperablebarrierto enforcing rights in foreign courts.
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Until there is such settlement, or the definite prospect of such a settlement, these debts will remain aninsuperablebarrierto economic and financial reconstruction.
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If this is forthcoming, then there should be noinsuperablebarrierfrom the side of the building industry.
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That is not aninsuperablebarrierto providing some guidance now.
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In that context, we need to recognise that this does not need to be aninsuperablebarrier.
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It does not seem to me to present aninsuperablebarrierto any serious candidate.
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Until there is such a settlement, or the definite prospect of such a settlement, these debts will remain aninsuperablebarrierto economic and financial reconstruction.
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The only barrier to entry to their club, and it is aninsuperablebarrier, is that they do not teach flesh and blood children in a three-dimensional classroom.
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