formidable difficulty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformidableanddifficulty
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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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difficulty
noun
uk/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəl.ti/us/ˈdɪf.ə.kəl.t̬i/
the fact of not being easy to do ...
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(Definition offormidableanddifficultyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A materialist who believes that persons are bodies faces aformidabledifficulty: if a person is a material object, it cannot be another one at a different time.
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It will delay tackling theformidabledifficultyof providing specially designed new flats, homes and sheltered accommodation for the elderly.
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My scientific advisers believe that it can be made to work, but they have not disguised itsformidabledifficulty.
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But there is a very much moreformidabledifficultythan that.
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But here we come up against aformidabledifficulty.
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I imagine that sorting is aformidabledifficultyin many cases.
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Faced with such aformidabledifficulty, we must all realise that only a really united national effort will enable us to win through.
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She faces theformidabledifficultyof transfer values.
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Then there is the secondformidabledifficultythat faces us, the economic posi- tion.
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Perhaps this proposal is not acceptable, but it would be a thoroughly up-to-date way of getting out of aformidabledifficulty.
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This would present aformidabledifficultyin the way of any proposal for conversion to industrial use.
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There is, of course—and one has to face it—theformidabledifficultyof the matter of taxation.
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I do not deny that this is an extremelyformidabledifficulty.
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In the past this has been found to be aformidabledifficulty, and it still exists.
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I hope it will be considered so, to get rid of what seems to me to be a veryformidabledifficulty.
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That is aformidabledifficulty.
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I see here aformidabledifficulty.
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He had to overcome aformidabledifficultycreated by the common law—even if he could manage without weekly compensation, which very few people could—known as the doctrine of common employment.
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There is, however, oneformidabledifficulty.
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