The level of inflation is a serious impediment to economic recovery.
To the second he is, increasingly, a liability: an impediment to the smooth running of News Corporation.
China's traditional mode of agricultural production had a serious impediment to sustainable agricultural development, and this kind of production mode directly threatening human's health and survival.
Moreover, the biggest impediment to the spread of renewables in most countries is not an antiquated grid, but the lack of a price on carbon.
The main impediment to the widespread use of solar power-clouds and nightfall aside-is the cost of the silicon cells that actually convert the sun's rays into electricity.
The main impediment to development is the country's large population.
Power: Inadequate access to energy is the single largest impediment to economic growth.
Napoleon never lost sight of his goal, because Britain represented the last substantial impediment to his control of Europe.
And they are returning with a mission: to shake up China's scientific culture of cronyism and mediocrity, often cited as its biggest impediment to scientific achievement.
French-speaking friend explained that learning English instead of the other Swiss languages is an impediment to the cultural amalgamation of the German and French-speaking groups in Switzerland.
We know that poverty is the single greatest impediment to development and change.
MINERS and their canaries are used to thinking of natural gas as a potentially deadly impediment to digging up coal.
The ceremony is quite broken off, subjoined the voice behind us. I am in a condition to prove my allegation: an insuperable impediment to this marriage exists.
The stability, water resistance, and other performances of the water-based ink are not very ideal, which is a great impediment to its development and application in packaging and printing industry.
The difficulty of diagnosing HIV in infants, however, remains a major impediment to progress.
Some cite a mission to shake up China's scientific culture of cronyism and mediocrity, often cited as its biggest impediment to scientific achievement.
According to the book's press release, "Among the most unique approaches Gore takes in the book is showing readers how our own minds can be an impediment to change."
That could help address a major impediment to wide adoption of such technologies: They need heavy subsidies to be economical.
This thesis analyses the imbalance of the property right system of private enterprises and its impediment to enterprises' development. And the article tries to provide solutions for the system i…
They reject that formalism as an impediment to language's access to the real, and to our access to the real through language.
Waiting on clients to deliver website content can be a big impediment to progress.
The main impediment to growth is a lack of capital.
Corporate and financial restructuring in the most-affected Asian countries remains a major impediment to renewed growth.
And the editor of a Qatari newspaper, speaking privately, told the Economist that laws were anyway not the main impediment to press freedom in his country.
The extreme sophistication of modern technology – wonderful though its benefits are – is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.