5 Metaphors for hindrances

But where these notions can be realised without unlawful interference of that kind, then the forcible hindrance of such realisation is a direct weakening of the force and amount of conscience on which the community may count.

The great hindrance, no doubt, is absorption in business; and we observe that this winter's hard times and consequent leisure have given a great stimulus to outdoor sports.

The only hindrance to a close examination of these new falls from the cliffs is the serious danger of another fall occurring at the same spot.

Another let or hindrance is strict and severe discipline, laws and rigorous customs, that forbid men to marry at set times, and in some places; as apprentices, servants, collegiates, states of lives in copyholds, or in some base inferior offices, Velle licet in such cases, potiri non licet, as he said.

The besetting hindrance to their progress was the low scrub of brushwood that greatly delayed the pack-horses.

5 Metaphors for  hindrances