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formidable barrier

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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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The net effect of these rules is to greatly restrict generic competition, ensuring that prohibitive drug prices continue to pose a formidablebarrier to access.
That makes a very formidablebarrier to escape.
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But the tax system is now a formidablebarrier to all other avenues to our economic and industrial success.
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The means-test mountain is a formidablebarrier to independence.
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We ask for provisions to remedy a condition which is not only a formidablebarrier to 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 a formidablebarrier, complete with a length of barbed wire across the top.
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Labor unions and their work rules were likewise a formidablebarrier to change.
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The shallow entrance constituted a formidablebarrier against 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.
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 a formidablebarrier.
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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.
The mountain range was a formidablebarrier.
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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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