But parsing and categorizing language, with its ambiguity and subtlety, remains a formidable hurdle for computers.
The six volumes were extremely lucrative and helped Churchill win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953; more important, they allowed him to write his own heroic legend — a formidable hurdle for subsequent biographers to jump.
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.
"You cannot tiptoe in India," he says.Just fill in a few forms first, pleaseBanking may present start-ups with the most formidable hurdles of all, in the form of India's financial regulators, and consumers' preference for established lenders, particularly state-owned ones.
And while French or Italian restaurants can easily ship in new staff from Europe, thanks to the European Union, Indian restaurants face the formidable hurdle of British immigration law.
In his article for The Conversation, Wilmut explains the formidable hurdles that stand in the way of scientists who want to clone the beasts.
Mr. Krist, the author of the novels "Bad Chemistry," "Chaos Theory" and "Extravagance," lets the story and its telling make the argument for the book, and they do, despite some formidable hurdles.
The officer, Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, the deputy commander of American and NATO forces here, said that bad weather, limited capacity to send supplies by air and potential attacks on ground convoys carrying equipment for the troops from Pakistan and other neighboring countries presented formidable hurdles to meeting the goal of sending all of the reinforcements by next fall.
