27 Verbs to Use for the Word hindrance

In theory its powers were great, but in practice little business was actually brought to it in the time of Henry I; the distance of the court from country places, and the expense of carrying a suit to it, would alone have proved an effectual hindrance to its usefulness, even if the rules by which it was guided had been much more complete and satisfactory than they actually were.

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

Wolff's Bureau in Berlin reports: "In spite of the most urgent appeals which the Army Direction has issued during the last few days, begging the public not to place hindrances in the way of motor-cars, blundering mistakes are still being made every hour in all parts of Germany, accompanied by the most serious consequences.

(2) It not only removes the hindrances of reason, but positively helps reason.

As a secondary, yet inevitably resulting consequence, there come domestic and social hindrances which still more completely draw the line between the male and female duties....

Your daughter is not the woman to treat you ungenerously, nor am I the man to create any hindrance to her generosity.

that throughout his plays the lovers rarely encounter any hindrance from without.

Here he experienced many hindrances arising from the rough basaltic nature of the country that borders the northern head-waters of that river.

In the meantime Edward felt very deeply the hindrances which were thrown in his way.

I have traveled thus far without interruption or question, and am surprised to find hindrance upon the part of an officer of the Commons.

Faithful to his plan, he gave his nephew no hindrance.

But in conflict with this belief has been the all but unanimous policy of nations from early times, throughout the Middle Ages, and down to this day, of interposing some special hindrances (of varying degrees and kinds) to this kind of trade.

He found he could instantly assume the level of the man he talked with, and that his tongue knew no hindrance.

It is sad to think of anybodynot to say a poet, but any human beingsleeping, eating, thinking, praying, and spending all his home-life in this miserable hovel; but, methinks, I never in the least knew how to estimate the miracle of Burns's genius, nor his heroic merit for being no worse man, until I thus learned the squalid hindrances amid which he developed himself.

They had approached Rome without meeting any hindrance, when Commodus met them and enquired: "Why is this, fellow-soldiers?

That ancient lament, that ever iterated accusation of the world because it opposes a certain hindrance to freedom, love, reason, and every excellence which the imagination of man can portray and his heart pursue,what is it, in the final analysis, but a complaint that we cannot walk without weight, and that therefore climbing is climbing?

And were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil-doing.

In order to prevent any hindrance to decrees from this last measure it was ordered that all those framed by as many as happened to attend meetings should be binding.

If, then, he is doing nothing of this kind do not yet say that he is free, but learn his opinions, whether they are subject to compulsion, or may produce hindrance, or to bad fortune, and if you find him such, call him a slave who has a holiday in the Saturnalia; say that his master is from home; he will return soon, and you will know what he suffers.

A German teacher in the German Technical School at Aleppo, who resigned his appointment as a protest against the Armenian atrocities in 1915, thus records his personal judgment in an open letter to the Reichstag: "The Young Turk is afraid of the Christian nationalitiesArmenians, Syrians and Greekson account of their cultural and economic superiority, and he sees in their religion a hindrance to Turkifying them by peaceful means.

When this bitter cry came to Hoel he sought neither hindrance nor excuse.

" A chair was now brought, and the Lady Isabella, after a tender parting with her lover, being placed within it, she was thus transported, under the charge of Hodges and Chiffinch, to Whitehall, where she arrived in safety, though not without having sustained some hindrance and inconvenience.

The groundlessness of the idea upon which this alarm was founded afforded no hindrance to its ready reception, nor was the absurdity of the design attributed to the ruling powers apparent to the obscured and timid intellect of the Sepoys.

Of course you thought you had a good excuse; but if promptitude were one of your strong points, instead of one of your latencies, you would have been on time in spite of that excuseif it were your habit to be on time you'd have swept aside a much greater hindrance before you would have allowed yourself to be behind time.

Then began a series of baffling hindrances which resulted finally in his stooping to means repugnant to his open sense of what was due himself.

27 Verbs to Use for the Word  hindrance