difficult hurdle

collocation in English

meaningsofdifficultandhurdle

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difficult
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/us
/ˈdɪf.ə.kəlt/
needing skill ...
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hurdle
noun
uk
/ˈhɜː.dəl/us
/ˈhɝː.dəl/
a frame or fence for jumping over in ...
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(Definition ofdifficultandhurdlefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If so, this presents adifficulthurdlefor a task-efficacy theory.
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The theory has crossed adifficulthurdle.
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That is adifficulthurdlefor anyone trying to get exemption.
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I know that the common agricultural policy will be adifficulthurdle.
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Therefore, it is adifficulthurdlefor many young people to jump.
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What the measure proposes is in practice a much moredifficulthurdlethan either of those.
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That proved a verydifficulthurdleto get right.
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That is going to be a verydifficulthurdleto surmount.
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That is only right and proper; and it is not adifficulthurdleto surmount.
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We do not believe that that is adifficulthurdleto surmount.
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We want new categories to be admitted to allow people over this verydifficulthurdle.
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We have many instances of thatdifficulthurdlefor the director general in making his case.
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Often, the mostdifficulthurdleto overcome is to get other agencies to recognise the issues that affect them.
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The only test left then would be that of necessity and that could be a very high anddifficulthurdleto cross on its own.
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Here we approach the mostdifficulthurdle: what is the will of the people in these matters?
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We would certainly encourage it very much, because this would get us over probably the mostdifficulthurdle.
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To convince employers of their injustice over the time limits would have been a verydifficulthurdle.
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It is adifficulthurdle, but we must cross it.
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The land for the scheme has been held for 45 years to my knowledge, so the mostdifficulthurdleto any major scheme does not exist there.
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I believe that it has been unfortunate in its parentage because people still associate it with the atom and that has been adifficulthurdlefor it to overcome.
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