Collocations withhurdle
These are words often used in combination withhurdle.
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additional hurdle
However, the past 20 years has seen the gradual development of an additional hurdle to market access.
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big hurdle
The realization that amino-acid synthesis was not, in itself, the big hurdle to life generation and the subsequent failures in generating life itself have had a negative impact.
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bureaucratic hurdle
For the majority of small business men who operate fairly and decently, it is another bureaucratic hurdle that is placed in their way.
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difficult hurdle
If so, this presents a difficult hurdle for a task-efficacy theory.
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enormous hurdle
The tribal divide between psychologists and psychiatrists is an enormous hurdle.
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final hurdle
For that additional reason, we welcome the amendments and hope that the final hurdle can now be overcome.
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financial hurdle
He is wrong—there is an impossible financial hurdle.
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high hurdle
Jumping a high hurdle requires gaining the acquiescence of political players who are not like-minded, and thus will not respond to incentives provided by party and ideology.
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hurdle rate
Lower interest rates are also highly desirable because they lower the hurdle rate of return when investment decisions are being made and so encourage investment.
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major hurdle
One major hurdle in investigating an outbreak caused by a common organism is differentiating those cases associated with the outbreak from background cases.
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significant hurdle
Contributions from environmental factors are anticipated to be the major determinants of these variations, but identifying the factors and deciphering their relative strengths is a significant hurdle in epidemiology.
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