Impediment

But compliance costs are a very major impediment to growth for smaller businesses.

Therein may lie a serious impediment to success.

People tell me they don’t notice my hearing impediment .

On top of my hearing impediment I find I can’t pick out individual conversations in crowds.

The ball can be replaced without penalty if its movement is not a result of removing a looseimpediment .

The gridlock has become a significant impediment to the economy as well.

He suffered from a speech impediment , was unschooled and never learned to read.

Even so, enthusiasts insist that the main impediment to major advancements in solar energy is lack of political will.

The trip to Jupiter embodies our ability to overcome the technological impediment .

Certainly there was no major legal impediment to multifunctional banking, in which commercial and investment banking are combined.

The single greatest impediment to creative, revolutionary sustainment progress appears to be entrenched parochial jurisdictions.

a serious impediment to scientific progress

He has a slight speech impediment , a problem pronouncing S’s.

There should be no greater legal impediment to the movement and trade in one case than in the others.

Introducing a brief plot summary should eliminate this impediment .

Parents thus become an impediment to successful parenting, in need of professional re-education.

Sir Peter has a slight speech impediment .

a serious impediment to scientific progress

It also brought out that the young Erika had a speech impediment – a stammer that was so bad she had to go to a special school for one year!

My dentist had advised me to wear it in the daytime to realign my jaw, but the only noticeable effect was to give me a speech impediment , tripping over my vowels and lisping every other word.

Though she eventually recovered consciousness, she was left with a speech impediment and the part of the brain that controls emotions was impaired.

On first hearing this one might well assume that the effects were fairly minor – perhaps involving a child having problems with a speech impediment , or being shy and awkward and less creative or inventive than his peers.

No such impediments exist in the private sector.

The person may have had difficulty in communicating with her because she has a speech impedimentand so he or she may not be aware that the woman had been assaulted.

There appear to be serious impediments to achieving such high penetration rates, especially on a worldwide basis.

She investigated the matter and discovered that the boy had been neither deaf nor dumb but was born with a speech impediment .

“We must address some of the structural impediments to our success, ” she says.

Having a speech impediment , I knew I wouldn’t be able to do anything that involved speaking.

I do not have a speech impediment , as my hearing loss didn’t develop till I was about seven years old.