By making this product available, Samsung hopes to remove a big barrier that some consumers have when they think about buying a Smart TV.

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Insurers could still refuse to cover a company altogether, but it might remove a big barrier to bank lending, not only to carmakers.

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This will remove one barrier to a better and bigger engagement between America and Asia.

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The legislation would remove what had been seen as a barrier for drillers wanting to use coal mine water: the state's Clean Streams Law.

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And the unification of consumer lenders' jealously guarded proprietorial credit databases into a national whole would remove an important barrier to entry.

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Now, another barrier government can remove -- and I hear a lot about this from many of you -- is a burdensome corporate tax code with one of the highest rates in the world.

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The effect has been to remove the barrier to shareholder suits, according to Paul Sheard, a strategist at Baring Asset Management.

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