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词汇 example_english_formidable-obstacle
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formidable obstacle

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meanings of formidableand obstacle


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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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obstacle
noun[C]
uk /ˈɒb.stə.kəl/ us /ˈɑːb.stə.kəl/
something that blocks you so that movement, going forward, or action is prevented or made ...
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Examples of formidable obstacle


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That is a formidableobstacle to such a move.
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Those who lack scholarship have therefore a formidableobstacle to surmount.
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That could be a formidableobstacle to surmount.
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Vested interests created in favour of civil servants are a most formidableobstacle to overcome.
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Secondly, there is a very formidableobstacle in their wives.
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It is not intended to be a formidableobstacle to legislation.
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Any small company faced with a larger company determined to bolster its own cash flow by delaying payment faces a formidableobstacle.
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As a matter of fact, in this case there is no very formidableobstacle to cross.
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The first and most formidableobstacle to any improvement is the existence of the black market.
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Anyone who tries to thwart me in that objective will find me a most formidableobstacle.
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These factors put a formidableobstacle in the way of young children learning to read and write.
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Cost is genuinely formidableobstacle to change and a major reason for caution.
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The most formidableobstacle in the way of reducing unemployment is our unsatisfactory balance of payments.
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All that is merely for one mile of rough track which might possibly have not been regarded by those organising the rally as a very formidableobstacle.
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I do not say that this constitutes an insurmountable obstacle, but it is a very formidableobstacle at the present time in the path of unification.
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But, to outside observers, and to relatively ignorant observers, we appear to be divided from these negotiations by what looks like interminable argument and formidableobstacle.
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They do constitute a very formidableobstacle.
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This system of minefields constituted a formidableobstacle to the resumption of trade in the aftermath of the war.
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