major impediment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandimpediment
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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impediment
noun[C]
uk/ɪmˈped.ɪ.mənt/us/ɪmˈped.ə.mənt/
something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult ...
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(Definition ofmajorandimpedimentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Amajorimpedimentto the advancement of new therapies, however, has been the absence of useful models.
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The brick tax was amajorimpedimentto experimentation with other methods as well.
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A secondmajorimpedimentwas the lack of colonial and metropolitan capital.
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Themajorimpedimentto the use of vasectomy as a demographically important fertility control measure is that it is a medical procedure.
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The reduced income during the years required to obtain organic certification will be amajorimpediment to organic cropping systems and their longterm profitability.
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The othermajorimpedimentis the absence of specific or high-affinity toxins or blockers for connexin channels.
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This is amajorimpedimentto progress, as population kinetics of highly stripped ions is a complex problem.
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As for specific weight, low protein wheat may thus be poor value, but is not amajorimpedimentto production of satisfactory bread.
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In particular, political pressure seems to be amajorimpedimentto revenue collection.
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Firstly, policy inheritance was amajorimpedimentfor a far-reaching policy change.
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For the development of affordable systems in less common languages this can become amajorimpediment, because of the relatively small user base and the high development costs.
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Amajorimpedimentto successful islet transplantation in humans is the lack of a suitable surrogate marker to detect a rejection response as soon as it occurs.
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This is not amajorimpediment.
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There has been healthy sustained growth since 1981, but currently the coal strike is themajorimpedimentto yet better performance.
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The present regulations represent amajorimpedimentto tourism.
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Climate, especially rainfall, presents amajorimpedimentand challenge.
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This agreement removes amajorimpedimentto further early progress.
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It has improved port access and removed amajorimpedimentto the development of the port and the marina.
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That presents a huge problem for the development of good communications, and is therefore amajorimpedimentto economic progress in the islands.
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