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But parsing and categorizing language, with its ambiguity and subtlety, remains a formidable hurdle for computers.

Having a new contract in place clears a formidable hurdle for Ford and allows it to start reducing its hourly labor rate by hiring thousands of new workers at lower wages.

Sir Ian Wilmut, who fronted the team that cloned Dolly the sheep, thinks that Britain's strong emphasis on animal welfare will prove a formidable hurdle for the cloning industry.

For junior faculty members, tenure was a formidable hurdle, and only a few won it.

A formidable hurdle to increasing prosperity is the strong cultural aversion to growth in contemporary Britain.

But any deal would face a formidable hurdle: sales at the bookstores of both chains have declined and the competition on the digital front is intense.

While it may be many companies' dream to sell to the 1.3 billion Chinese, getting money into China to set up is a formidable hurdle.

Despite all the research going into cellulosic ethanol, cost remains a formidable hurdle.

A President McCain and his tax policies would face a formidable hurdle in Congress with both houses controlled by Democrats, notes Wharton finance professor Richard Marston.

But the format presents formidable hurdles for customers and restaurants, enough to cause us to stop and wonder how many more meals like this we need.

The Red Sox remain questionable, but certainly the Athletics and the Mariners pose formidable hurdles for the Yankees to become the first team since the Yankees of the early 1960's to play in four successive World Series.