The Hague airfields were to be captured by glider and paratroops, but the Dutch had heavily fortified the area and prepared obstacles to hamper landing attempts.

Mr. Coombs resigned from the State Department in mid-1962 with a letter to the secretary of state, Dean Rusk, saying that bureaucratic obstacles and a dearth of funds had hampered the department's educational mission.

Ms. Levitan said it was too soon to assess the effect of that alliance on eToys, but she said several other obstacles had clearly hampered the company.

Trees, buildings and other obstacles scattered around combat maps also hamper ranged attacks as well as movement to various degrees, and can be used to one's advantage to great effect.

A water trail for canoeing and kayaking is also being constructed, but dams, bridges, weirs and other obstacles hamper the use of the river.

And bridging it would be difficult for the Indowy; this obstacle would severely hamper the movement of the force.

I also recommended at that time that, in order to deal with the obstacles still hampering EU citizens' exercise of freedom of movement and residence, the proposal for a directive that we are discussing today should be adopted as rapidly as possible.

Rather, natural obstacles can hamper communications with the tiny radios, which often have less than a watt in power.

Many obstacles hamper development of the Internet in Latin America.

But court officials have said many obstacles, including the difficulties of getting information from the banks, have hampered the effort.