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词汇 example_english_chief-obstacle
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chief obstacle

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meanings of chiefand obstacle


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chief
adjective[before noun]
uk /tʃiːf/ us /tʃiːf/
most important ...
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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 chief obstacle


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The chiefobstacle to such a law in the first part of the twentieth century was opposition from settlers and farmers.
The chiefobstacle concerned the system of musical representation required to express the sense of transcendental becoming.
This suggests that the chiefobstacle to the supply of e-participation facilities is the desire of governors to continue using public office for their corrupt and private benefit.
The lack of sufficient training institutions is, at the moment, the chiefobstacle to providing training for disabled men.
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I believe that the chiefobstacle to efficiency in the use of labour in factories lies in the word "redundancy".
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The farming problem will obviously be our chiefobstacle.
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I think the chiefobstacle in their way is the financial one.
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What was the chiefobstacle that blocked its road in the past as well as the path of domestic peace and progress?
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The chiefobstacle to all this is the attachment of officials to conventional behaviour.
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The chiefobstacle to its functioning is trade union monopoly.
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The chiefobstacle is the inherent individualism of those who conduct the big economic enterprises of this country.
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Does he not realise that he has become the chiefobstacle to expanding the railway network?
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The chiefobstacle to some moderate improvement of the salary scale, and especially of minimum salaries, in all districts will thus be removed.
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Here, as in so many other of our prison problems, as has emerged from this debate this afternoon, public indifference is our chiefobstacle.
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His advice to them has been that they should recruit extra technical staff, the lack of which has been the chiefobstacle to progress.
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The chiefobstacle to the building up of the proper kind of staff seems to lie in the sense of security due to the short-term engagement offered.
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The lack of proper accommodation for putting on plays, art centres and the like has been the chiefobstacle in the past to development in the arts.
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The chiefobstacle to the reclamation of much of this land is, of course, the difficulty of finding the necessary money, labour and equipment to do the work.
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The chiefobstacle to the more widespread adoption of the material is its cost, which increased production and improved methods of manufacture will no doubt tend to reduce.
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Several projects have been proposed to extend rail service back to these areas, but lack of funding has again been the chiefobstacle to implementation.
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