To him, it seemed that tax avoidance and tax havens were a real impediment to allowing developing countries to function properly, and also a moral issue for companies in the developed world; for the Jersey-born Christensen, paying a fair amount of tax was the duty of any good citizen.
The test of a nation is not how many millionaires you have, but how many millions you lift out of poverty … Donald Kaberuka Kaberuka also warns that Africa's economic development is being choked by chronic energy shortages: "Today, in every single African country, from South Africa to the north, the biggest impediment to economic growth is energy," he says.
It also massively hikes up the price of the drugs and this is perhaps the biggest impediment".
Politics had been the main impediment to change, he inferred, with the UK leadership understanding the problems but slow to act.
The other way to get there, of course, is despite the impediment of a big mouth or an idiotic moustache, and fortunately for David Warner, he has both.
Zapu enjoyed overwhelming support among the Ndebele and was seen as an impediment by the leadership of Zanu-PF.
He is an impediment for Greece, a drag on the talks and he has to go".
The biggest impediment to the improvement of many settlements is the misconception that they are illegitimate, because residents don't own the land they occupy.
Tony Benn (formerly known as Viscount Stansgate) didn't think his privileged upbringing was any impediment to his role as a leading socialist.
You're no one in the ICC rankings any more unless you got there despite the impediment of an absent lung.
Public opposition to fracking in the UK has continued to rise, according to polling released as the new Conservative energy secretary said she would "deliver shale" now the impediment of the Liberal Democrats had been removed.
