"posed a hurdle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to mean that a certain obstacle has been presented or that someone is facing a challenge. Example: The complex calculations posed a hurdle for the scientists in their research.
The history of labor relations with the communications workers in New York also poses a hurdle.
Of course, retrieving the small, reusable bean devices from large grain silos poses a hurdle.
The comparatively low level of Internet users in central Europe could pose a hurdle, Mr. Varadi acknowledged.
A11 Subsidies Pose a Hurdle The House and the Senate have huge differences over how to treat poor people in legislation adding prescription drugs to Medicare, and lawmakers say those differences have become a major obstacle to agreement on a compromise bill.
He said that far from posing a hurdle for homeowners, MERS had helped reduce mortgage fraud and imposed order on a sprawling industry where, in the past, lenders might have gone out of business and left no contact information for borrowers seeking assistance.
But a weekday meeting could also pose a hurdle.
Due to this intensely lipid-rich character, the stratum corneum is largely impermeable to hydrophilic substances, posing a hurdle to any drug that is to be delivered topically.
But if XM and Sirius are truly serious about exploring a merger, you can be sure they'll cite the burgeoning HD Radio market as one of the reasons why antitrust concerns shouldn't pose a hurdle to a possible deal.
On the other hand, it has also been noted that the sample complexity of the scenario approach rapidly increases with the number of optimization variables and this may pose a hurdle to its applicability to medium and large scale problems.
