Collocations withobstacle
These are words often used in combination withobstacle.
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big obstacle
A big obstacle to really using functional applications is often their performance.
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bureaucratic obstacle
The third has led to attempts to constrain nonconforming practice through regulation, bureaucratic obstacle, or denial of payment.
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chief obstacle
The chief obstacle to such a law in the first part of the twentieth century was opposition from settlers and farmers.
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enormous obstacle
But it might help overcome one enormous obstacle to getting all parties engaged constructively in the debate.
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formidable obstacle
That is a formidable obstacle to such a move.
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greatest obstacle
Perhaps the greatest obstacle is the need for an electrical microcentrifuge and stable power supply.
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huge obstacle
It is a huge obstacle, often in other countries too, to reaching a reasonable ethnic understanding between citizens.
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institutional obstacle
Should attitudes change or should it become clear that there is, after all, an institutional obstacle to closer cooperation, then the time might be right to go further.
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insuperable obstacle
We do not regard the absence of evidence of public demand as an insuperable obstacle to legislation.
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insurmountable obstacle
While it does not necessarily shatter all of our illusions, it surely remains an insurmountable obstacle for any project of self-created human happiness.
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key obstacle
Taking an anatomical look at state-society relationships around the question of autonomy helps clarify this one key obstacle to societal influence.
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legal obstacle
Therefore, their request did not encounter any legal obstacle.
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main obstacle
This is indeed the main obstacle to a strict prevention of consanguinity.
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major obstacle
The major obstacle in learning inverse kinematics lies in the problem that the inverse kinematics of a redundant kinematic chain has infinite solutions.
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numerous obstacles
Yet numerous obstacles and pitfalls remain in the path of a full and fair unification.
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potential obstacle
A second potential obstacle is the verb morphology of passives.
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practical obstacle
This attitudinal obstacle is deeply connected with a major practical obstacle: lack of familiarity with the birds.
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primary obstacle
The primary obstacle to such a strategy is that the different components have been normed on different samples, often at very different times.
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principal obstacle
In addition, one-third of respondents identified infrastructure deficiencies as a principal obstacle to success in improving services to patients.
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serious obstacle
We foresee no serious obstacle against establishing such results; the reason is merely that we do not need them.
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significant obstacle
This has become a significant obstacle to coming to terms with this extraordinary work.
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structural obstacles
More disturbingly still, these structural obstacles were compounded by an initial delay in the release of government loans and allowances.
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substantial obstacle
But in this case publication bias might be the most substantial obstacle in obtaining a truly reliable interpretation of the data.
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technical obstacle
Moreover, we lose mass-conservation, which is another x technical obstacle for our proofs.
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tremendous obstacle
When these schemes for hill farming were put in, those concerned were faced with a tremendous obstacle.
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unexpected obstacle
Robot 1 stops at its end point, and robot 2 views it as an unexpected obstacle.
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unnecessary obstacle
Does a rule requiring two-parent permission provide additional protection, or does it merely serve as an unnecessary obstacle given today's family structure?
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