That lawsuit was an impediment to reforms".
Cases will essentially be investigated from scratch, with the added impediments brought by the passage of time, like dead witnesses and foggy recollections.
But they have also had the unintentional consequence of creating bonuses for the wealthy and added impediments to the less well-off.
However, Crowley took the lead in quashing the Goldstone Commission report, insisting it "should not be used as a mechanism to add impediments to getting back to the peace process". Ironically, just weeks earlier, the Obama administration argued during a UN debate on Darfur that war crimes charges should never be sacrificed for political reasons.
Delays and bureaucracy, as much as costs, add impediments to expanding in India.
Robert Kaplan: Globalization adds an impediment to The United States' continual dominance of its own hemisphere.
A speech impediment added to his difficulties.
The latest proposal from the FCC on net neutrality now adds another impediment to the already challenging fund-raising environment for digital media startups.
He announced that he would step down as leader if the Independent Democrats returned to the caucus because, he said, he did not want to be an "impediment" to a deal, adding, "This is bigger than me".
"Marie Stopes has a relationship with the Chinese government and its birth limitation programmes that has caused a legal impediment," the official added.
Has there even been one since the explosion of bromance?" Anne Thompson, of indieWIRE, added, "In a world with few impediments to couples getting together, finding barriers to romance is tricky," which reminded me of a classic Hollywood moment that, I think, defines the essence of the problem.
