493 examples of hindrance in sentences

"Your Consul-General viséd my passport, and I claim, under international law, to be allowed to proceed without hindrance.

It was in order that I should be permitted to go where I liked, and to see what I liked without official hindrance, that his Majesty the Emperor had, at the instigation of the Ministry of the Interior, given me that most valuable document.

The floods of eloquence that had so long been slumbering now burst forth beyond all hindrance or control.

Instead of a help, Miranda became a hindrance, for they began a long conversation, so that the business of log-carrying went on very slowly.

" "I have said all," quoth Robin, "and now, if thou wilt give me thy purse, I will let thee go thy way without let or hindrance so soon as I shall see what it may hold.

This enables them to choose their own point of attack, not only along the sea-coast, but up every river as far as their light galleys can swim; to retreat unmolested, at their own time, whenever the fortune of war turns against them; to bring reinforcements of men and supplies to the scene of action without fear of hindrance.

Russia now proceeded to intervene directly and to break up the constitutional government in Persia without risk of failure or hindrance.

Ignorance of the language was a perpetual hindrance in their way.

This is one of those distinctions without a difference which are so prolific a source of hindrance to the opening out of truth.

Employed in the former way our intellect becomes the greatest hindrance to our success, for it only helps to increase our doubts, since it is trying to grasp particulars which, at the time are entirely outside its circle of vision; but employed in the latter it affords the most material aid in maintaining that nucleus without which there is no centre from which the principle of growth can assert itself.

Faults of expression are no hindrance to this kind of understanding.

But, as a rule, the pirate ruffled and bullied and drabbed without let or hindrance, until it was time for him to go back to his ship once more.

[hindrance], which turned me quite out of my work.

The creaking ceased, the wards of the lock grated, the knob turned, the door was thrust openthe table offering little hindrance if any.

He goes to the window, with its baby screws, which might as well be left open as shut, for all the hindrance it is to his entrance; and if he meddled with the door at all, it is simply to open it from the inside, so that when he is ready to depart he may do so easily.

" This announcement was received with a laugh, and she was allowed to proceed without further hindrance.

The minority of the School Committee argued that schools are the common property of all, and that each and all are legally entitled without "let or hindrance" to the equal benefits of all advantages they might confer.

It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory" (impedimentabaggage and hindrance).

Men will always be hasty, their thoughts to extremes ever running: Easily out of their course the hasty are turned by a hindrance.

It is a great hindrance to the proper discharge of their duties while here.

Grant thou that I may sail down to Tattu like a living soul, and up to Abtu like the phoenix; and grant that I may enter in and come forth from the pylons of the lands of the underworld without let or hindrance.

If by looking at certain details of this composite structure one could shut off the surroundings from the eye, the mind might feed without any hindrance upon the ideas of old piety and the fervour of souls who, when Europe was like a troubled and forlorn sea, sought the quietude and safety of these rocks, lifted far above the raging surf.

But the hindrance is found on every side.

I know that I am a sore hindrance to business at such an hour as this.

That the dinners and dances, drives and luncheons might proceed without hindrance many family schedules were being upset.

493 examples of  hindrance  in sentences