"Significant hurdles" means major obstacles or challenges that are difficult to overcome.
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Smaller non-profit organizations still face
significant hurdles in building partnerships with local businesses.
Victims of medical malpractice
face significant hurdles when it comes to suing the negligent doctor or hospital that caused their injuries.
As innovators work to revamp the legal industry and bring consumers a more modern approach to the delivery of legal services, the
most significant hurdle remains the handling of client funds.
Nonetheless, today's first - time buyers face at least one
significant hurdle when buying a home: the down payment.
In addition to gender, black women see obstacles to racial equality: three - quarters of black women workers say there are
still significant hurdles holding back minorities.
You'll get used to them eventually but when you're just starting the adventure, figuring out how to optimize your party can be a
fairly significant hurdle to overcome.
Neither will save golf alone, neither will flip nations
with significant hurdles in the way to leading golf nations overnight.
In the race to put down roots in ever - expanding legal markets, these multinational firms face an
increasingly significant hurdle in bringing the firm together not just financially, but culturally.
This 40 - pp publication
details significant hurdles to assigning personal accountability for the actions of fully autonomous weapons under both criminal and civil law.
But
significant hurdles remain, not least the decades required for design, licensing and construction of even existing nuclear technologies, let alone novel ideas.
Also opposing attorney Ali Najmi and civic leader Bob Friedrich, Ms. Lynch could face a couple
of significant hurdles.
«The continued shortage of affordable housing inventory, coupled with prolonged natural disasters concentrated in the nation's most populous Latino states and increasing uncertainty over immigration policy, have
created significant hurdles for Latino homeownership and economic saliency,» the report states.
Professor Young said the spread of four distinct dengue virus types had
posed significant hurdles to developing effective vaccines, as any potential vaccine candidate must elicit a strong and protective immune response against all four types.
The 2017 season had been over for about 30 minutes last month when Brad Keselowski, one of title eligibles who fell short of beating Martin Truex Jr. in the championship finale, rationale explained why the 2018 Monster Energy Cup Series season
presented significant hurdles to himself and other Ford - powered drivers.
«There are
several significant hurdles which must be overcome if a study is to make a useful contribution to the debate about whether perinatal death is more likely if a home birth is planned or if a hospital birth is planned, and few (if any) readily available data sources can overcome all of these hurdles.
Kennedy agreed, adding that the US's most
significant hurdle on the cyber front was that «Russia plays by a completely different book.»
For many Phoenix students, the 10th grade MCAS is a
particularly significant hurdle: earning a passing score in both Math and English Language Arts are required to receive a Massachusetts high school diploma.
However, it's worth pointing out that one of the most
significant hurdles states are encountering when making this decision is evaluating whether or not their state academic standards align with the college - admissions exams.
The number of services, skills, and applications that already integrate with Amazon Alexa and Google Home systems, and the installed bases of early adopters who lead the way as more and more homes seek to be connected in these ways, create
significant hurdles for an entrant with a new home operating system.
And Manjoo is right that Tesla
faces significant hurdles in moving into the mass - scale, mass - market world that GM moves in.
Back in February, when the National Audit Office reported on the issue, there were «
still significant hurdles to negotiate», but it was expected the process would gradually begin operation in October this year.
Anthony Swift, Canada Project director with Natural Resources Defense Council, questioned the company's claim of strong commercial support and noted that
significant hurdles remain at the federal, state and local levels.
As teachers, we enjoy these processes as they require us to be very involved in the lives of our students, as well as explicitly model for them how effective communication can
overcome significant hurdles in group work.
Scott Moskowitz, GTM Research solar analyst, notes, «This is exponentially more ambitious than [the move to] 1,500 volts,» with «far
more significant hurdles.»
When it comes to turning a great idea into a viable business, one of the
most significant hurdles for many inventors is the cost of applying for a patent.
To really take flight, North America's small - scale startups must overcome
significant hurdles, such as figuring out how to industrialize their operations to meet the needs of mass - market production and finding ways to make insect farming more efficient — a pound of Next Millennium's ground crickets starts at $ 40 and jumps higher for bugs given organic and gluten - free feed, a price that makes it tough to compete with commodity meat producers.
Setting aside the physics, the bureaucracy of acquiring land rights between large cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco and dealing with all the legal issues around large - scale infrastructure construction could be
significant hurdles, regardless of who builds a prototype system.
Disrupting an ad industry with a history spanning over eight decades will be
a significant hurdle for programmatic TV (PTV) adoption.
While Musk is busy building rockets, he's not addressing one of the most
significant hurdles facing any attempt to establish humans on the Red Planet — politics (at least he's not addressing it publicly).
Business owners are optimistic about the U.S. economy improving and want to grow their business, but they face
significant hurdles in doing so, a new report shows.
If you're just getting into the game, or you're thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, be prepared for these eight
significant hurdles.
In the Republic of Korea, for instance, women face
significant hurdles in breaking into what is a very male - dominated business culture.