Most registered religious groups reported no serious legal impediments to their activities during the reporting period.

The program found each doctor had serious impediments to continuing in practice.

To be sure, costs are a serious impediment for many families.

Compassion can be a serious impediment to the practice of medicine.

Problems in the housing market are a serious impediment to a stronger economic recovery.

Data - blood or urine - must still be shipped to them, a serious impediment to third world care.

He says the proposal is a threat to easier lending and a serious impediment to economic growth.

One must look to their domestic policy dilemmas for more serious impediments to growth.

It is true that what could be called "frozen conflicts" are a serious impediment to the development of the region.

The growing crowd, he said, was becoming a serious impediment to their excavations, especially the boys.