Difficulty, hindrance, obstacle, impediment, encumbrance, handicap.

Mortimer's fastidiousness was sometimes a handicap, but Cartwright had none.

The humiliation to our nurses in placing them below the orderlies in the hospitals is not only a blow to their esprit de corps, but a definite handicap to their efficiency.

Each woman unprepared is a national handicap, each prejudice blocking the use of woman-power is treachery to our cause.

Water was the sole, but absolute handicap.

He runs illegitimate risks, which are things much given to dragging at a man's mind, handicapping his thoughts.

This "head-start," as we used to call it when I was a boy, is called a "handicap" by the big folk, but you don't need to use that big word, unless you care to.

Let them all begin alike, say I. They will be handicapped heavily enough as they go on in life, without our handicapping them in their first race.

False ideals and faulty educational systems may handicap its progress as much as the forces that are avowedly arrayed against it.

The majority of these ships were of comparatively slow speed, and trawlers possessed sufficient speed to accompany them, but a few destroyers of the older type formed a part of the escorting force, both for the purpose of protection and also for offensive action against submarines attacking the convoys, the slow speed of trawlers handicapping them greatly in this respect.

The necessity for continually providing reinforcements from the Harwich force for the Dover Patrol was a standing handicap to Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt's operations; he took the matter philosophically, although I always realized how difficult it made his work at times, and whenever, as was frequent, combined operations were carried out by the two forces, the greatest harmony prevailed between the Commands.

My dear Anerley, I tell you frankly that if you are going to handicap yourself with scruple you may just as well be in Fleet Street as in the Soudan.

Prejudice is hard to fight against, and the colored man has often a considerable amount of handicap to overcome.

The "pull" is a help to the children of inferior parents but is a handicap to the superior.

I defy any man to argue under such a handicap.

I did more, I brought upon myself through the local newspapers the handicapping title of "infant prodigy.

He had had his moments of hope, but with Falconer for a rival the handicap was too great.

I'd have stood a chance at least, of beating him, even though he had a twenty-year handicap or so.

" "If that's the case," she observed, "I'm likely to be a handicap to you, am I not?" "Lord, no," he smiled.

Other girls started in the race, an' the first we knew there was a big field in this maiden handicap.

Nothing, as he knew very well, beyond the opportunity to fight further for her, and under a far harder handicap, a handicap which he had foolishly imposed on himself.

Nothing, as he knew very well, beyond the opportunity to fight further for her, and under a far harder handicap, a handicap which he had foolishly imposed on himself.

And yet the stage-manager will go to the trouble, for the sake of a quite misguided realism, of making the hotel orchestra play against the dialogue as if the persistent coughing of the audience were not sufficient handicap to his team.

Logically it would perhaps seem as if those who believe in the "Woman's Rights" movement of uniform function for women and men, should be opposed to all such legislation; both on theoretical grounds as being a restraint of personal liberty, and as unequal legislation handicapping woman in her industrial competition with man.

But he would not sacrifice the old fetish, and so, the orbit of the earth being clearly not circular with respect to the sun, he made all his planetary planes pass through the centre of the earth's orbit, instead of through the sun, thus handicapping himself in the same way though not in the same degree as Ptolemy.