formidable barrier

collocation in English

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formidable
adjective
uk
/fɔːˈmɪd.ə.bəl/us
/fɔːrˈmɪd.ə.bəl/
causing you to have fear or respect for something or someone because that thing or person is large, powerful, ...
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barrier
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbær.i.ər/us
/ˈber.i.ɚ/
a long pole, fence, wall, or natural feature, such as a mountain or sea, that stops people from ...
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(Definition offormidableandbarrierfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The net effect of these rules is to greatly restrict generic competition, ensuring that prohibitive drug prices continue to pose aformidablebarrierto access.
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That makes a veryformidablebarrierto escape.
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But the tax system is now aformidablebarrierto all other avenues to our economic and industrial success.
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The means-test mountain is aformidablebarrierto independence.
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We ask for provisions to remedy a condition which is not only aformidablebarrierto all social progress, but which is a scandal to civilisation as at present constituted.
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On stage right there is a wall described as aformidablebarrier, complete with a length of barbed wire across the top.
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Labor unions and their work rules were likewise aformidablebarrierto change.
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The shallow entrance constituted aformidablebarrieragainst the use of the deep protected waters of the inner harbor as it had for 60 years.
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These conditions, if not sufficiently addressed, could pose formidable barriers to the success of interventions designed to enhance spirituality at the end of life.
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The sheer complexity of filling out these legal forms, obtaining witnesses, having the documents notarized, and filing the documents in a medical record or registry may pose aformidablebarrier.
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Because social support is not passively received, these recipient characteristics can pose formidable barriers to interventions based on supportive social relationships.
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The mountain range was aformidablebarrier.
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Those were formidable barriers to conflicts of interests, and formidable guarantees for the investors.
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At present the resources available are far too few to deal with the formidable barriers that face us in the future.
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That being so, formidable barriers are presented to those evaluating the efficacy of particular types of treatment.
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At present, there are many formidable barriers to one-parent families on income support who wish to seek independence.
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Certainly the question of the expansion of staff is essential if we are to eliminate the formidable barriers to future reform.
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The streams and bayous of this region were formidable barriers to over land travel.
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