potential obstacle

collocation in English

meaningsofpotentialandobstacle

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk
/pəˈten.ʃəl/us
/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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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 ofpotentialandobstaclefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A secondpotentialobstacleis the verb morphology of passives.
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The greatestpotentialobstacleto their development was royalty, because its impact is relatively insensitive to field economics.
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Therefore, it fails to deal with a majorpotentialobstacleto cross-border takeovers and restructuring.
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It has been the subject of public debate in recent months, but it remains apotentialobstacleto future development.
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We consider that the extended management board with two-thirds majority voting rules is apotentialobstacleto the smooth functioning of agencies.
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However, many considered those franchise contracts to be apotentialobstacleto improvement.
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The existing franchise contracts were seen by many as apotentialobstacleto improvement.
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As of today, that seems to be less of apotentialobstacleto the start of negotiations than it seemed to be a few days ago.
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This posed apotentialobstacleto coup leaders who are meanwhile advertising for candidates for posts in the interim government.
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The small size of the lunar core, however, is apotentialobstacleto promoting that hypothesis to the status of theory.
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Apotentialobstaclein raising income levels to fight poverty is that help is only rendered to a handful of people due to a lack of reach.
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These transitions require consideration of objects in the visual context as potential obstacles.
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We have followed a pragmatic approach that has been simplified as much as possible without going into too many details about some of the mathematical prerequisites and potential obstacles.
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Schlenoff et al. discuss the use of ontologies to capture world knowledge necessary to build autonomous vehicles by supporting reasoning about potential obstacles and their characteristics.
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There are, however, several other potential obstacles along the way.
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Business names, therefore, are potential obstacles to proposed new trademarks, and clearance searches would be less effective if the functions of the business names register were to disappear.
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