Sentence examples for a chief obstacle from inspiring English sources
"a chief obstacle" is correct and can be used in written English
It is commonly used to refer to a main or primary obstacle or hindrance in a situation or problem. Example: "Lack of funding proved to be a chief obstacle in completing the project on time."
As barriers shift, lack of line experience has become a chief obstacle.
Most pamphleteers of 1789 considered themselves "patriots," or reformers, and (though some were nobles themselves) identified the excessive influence of "aristocrats" as a chief obstacle to reform.
A chief obstacle is transportation: school districts usually send high school students to class earlier than elementary school kids, allowing for a staggered bus schedule, a smaller bus fleet and fewer drivers.
Immigration reformers said the situation highlights a chief obstacle that has created a legislative stalemate for decades, as hard-liners on both sides hold firm to all-or-nothing strategies based on electoral politics.
Republicans portray Mr. Daschle as a chief obstacle to Republican initiatives, as well as to Mr. Bush's judicial choices, and have tried to turn a majority of South Dakotans against him with a campaign that seeks to show that Mr. Daschle has lost touch with the folks back home.
With Donald Trump tweeting from the sidelines, Secretary of State John F. Kerry condemned Jewish settlement activity under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a chief obstacle to Mideast peace, igniting a fresh war of words with the Israeli leader.
Producing enough plutonium or highly enriched uranium (power reactors use the low-enriched sort, but this can be enriched to weapons grade by running it through the centrifuges a few more times) is the chief obstacle to building a bomb.
Homosexuals, similarly, are the definitive nonheterosexuals -- yes, there is a circularity at work here -- and so the chief obstacle to a pleasing stability of male and female social roles.
At a recent home game against the Los Angeles Lakers, the Kings' chief obstacle to a championship, the Maloof family showed up in force -- all four brothers in front-row attendance, as well as Colleen and Adrienne and what seemed to be hundreds of close personal friends.
For days, the chief obstacle to a deal was the design of a mechanism to force the committee to act — or to make sure spending cuts were adopted if the committee failed.
Why do lawmakers, according to Politico, "from both parties contend Norquist is the chief obstacle to a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction deal?" That sure is a great deal of back-scratching, and none of it is good for the smooth legislative operations of a representative democracy.
