primary obstacle

collocation in English

meaningsofprimaryandobstacle

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primary
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us
/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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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 ofprimaryandobstaclefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theprimaryobstacleto such a strategy is that the different components have been normed on different samples, often at very different times.
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Koumei is theprimaryobstaclepreventing further progress toward a two-party system but their future under the new system does not look bright.
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That is theprimaryobstacleto our signing.
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Several scholars have at times intended to study these paintings, but it seems that difficulties of identification were theprimaryobstacleto publication.
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Theprimaryobstacleargued against direct cash transfers is the impractically for poor countries of such large and direct transfers.
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Along with funding, however, finding appropriate candidates for participation is aprimaryobstacleto the advancement of clinical research.
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Theprimaryobstacleto effective eradication of cyber crime could be traced to excessive reliance on firewalls and other automated detection systems.
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Theprimaryobstacleis the absence of suitable instruments.
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They also agreed that the primary obstacles to this concept would be funding the teams and accomodating for the time constraints.
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The fireballs remain theprimaryobstacle.
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Theprimaryobstacleis that except for professors of transportation economics and a cadre of vocal environmentalists, few people are in favor of considerably higher charges for peak-period travel.
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The primary obstacles to mutual comprehension are differences in pronunciation.
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In certain types of high strength steels, very fine deformation twins act as primary obstacles against dislocation motion.
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