Naysayers were quick to point out a lack of infrastructure, technical knowledge and disposable income to fund smartphones and data packages (not to mention the need to meet the continent's diverse linguistic needs) would all hamper his ambitious goal.
Arenas, Brendan Haywood and DeShawn Stevenson, all hampered with injuries last season, are scheduled to return.
Intensive development, industry, sewage treatment plants and Kennedy International Airport have all hampered water quality and caused erosion.
Jim Jefferies, Nicky Law, Bryan Robson and Colin Todd, all hampered by a crippling financial situation, tried and failed, and, in May last year, David Wetherall's three-month stint as caretaker manager ended in relegation.
But frequent changes in personnel and turf wars between the national and local governments, as well as between the fisheries and forestry ministries, have all hampered implementation.
But if those responses were relatively knee-jerk, that's as nothing to the twitterati, some with something interesting to say about class, a great many without, almost all hampered by the simple Chinese-whisper effect of only having heard that Cumberbatch said something moany about being picked on for being posh.
A pulled hamstring in spring minicamps, shin splints in June and a thigh bruise last month all hampered Crouch's ability to thrive as a receiver, although Steiner said Crouch had not ruled out a future return to the N.F.L. or to the quarterback position.
To some degree, they are all hampered by data scarcity problems.
Winter's 20 hours of darkness each day, temperatures as low as -60F and ground frozen solid by permafrost all hampered work during the decade-long project, but president Warren Harding – the first US president to visit Alaska during his tenure – had the honour of driving in the railway's last golden spike in July 1923.
These studies are all hampered by the lack of renal biopsies for the diagnosis of acute phosphate nephropathy.
