But his face was apparently known here, for no serious hindrance to proceed was put in his way.

But how long, Oedipa thought, could it go on before collisions became a serious hindrance?

Transportation bottlenecks on rivers and lack of rail connections are serious hindrances to commercial exploitation.

He said the agency's policy of selling them one by one was a serious hindrance to clearing out the inventory.

A serious hindrance to the crusaders was bad weather conditions.

I'm really not sure he's willing, or able, to relax things much further, and at some point that's going to become a serious hindrance to Apple.

The landscape itself was often the most serious hindrance to settlement, as was famously demonstrated by the San Juan Expedition of 1879.

This was a serious hindrance, since the civilians were well supplied with grenades, rifles and machine guns.

An active enemy to the south would have been a serious hindrance to Napoleon, and he marched into the Papal States.

His failure to complete secondary school will be a serious hindrance to future job prospects.