formidable challenge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformidableandchallenge
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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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challenge
noun
uk/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/us/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/
(the situation of being faced with) something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a ...
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(Definition offormidableandchallengefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, this volume's reach is both its greatest strength and its mostformidablechallenge.
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However, regulation of ever-changing hyaluronan concentrations needed for cell movement within the zona and differentiation in vitro may present aformidablechallenge.
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This is aformidablechallengebecause grasslands are complex ecosystems subjected to a wide range of environmental and management conditions.
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Nonetheless, several anatomical and physiopathological aspects of this malformation contribute to make its correction aformidablechallengefor the surgeons.
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Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods, however, has proved aformidablechallengeeven within those disciplines.
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Building such as institution in developing countries with little science infrastructure or regulatory apparatus would be aformidablechallenge.
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Such experiences in the aggregate would prove to be aformidablechallengeto the self-worth of an offspring with symptomatic parent.
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He presents aformidablechallengeto those who want to argue that collective reasoning ought to result in an integral consensus.
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Even today, this remains aformidablechallengein many developing countries.
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Understanding the processes leading to resilience is aformidablechallenge, undoubtedly involving highly complex processes, and one that will require an enormous amount of work.
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We all know that learning a foreign language is aformidablechallengefor adults.
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In this sense, theformidablechallengeis to overcome the disparate and perhaps not mutually compatible nature of ethnographic and archaeological data.
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It is claimed that the functional lexicon presents the mostformidablechallenge, while syntax and phrasal semantics pose less difficulty to learners.
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An even moreformidablechallengeis defining a clear melodic tradition in particular places.
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The findings of this study suggest that inferring the meaning of connectives when the class of semantic relation is complex would pose an even moreformidablechallenge.
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Societies in transition from mass violence to peace face theformidablechallengeof integrating thousands of perpetrators of serious crimes back into their own or other communities.
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With this goes aformidablechallenge.
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Despite truly remarkable progress since the strike, that remains aformidablechallenge.
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When will we at last provide a concrete response to the crucial demand, theformidablechallengerepresented by climate change?
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