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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an impediment to progress" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe something that hinders or obstructs advancement or development in a particular context. Example: "The lack of funding has become an impediment to progress in the research project."
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But they are essentially an impediment to progress?
So is ignorance an impediment to progress or a precondition for it?
State officials call the building a blight and a grisly memento, an impediment to progress.
DeVos, who has previously derided government, is now leading an agency she views as an impediment to progress.
In this context, said Jack Murtha, a conservative Democrat who served as a marine for 37 years, American troops are now an impediment to progress in Iraq.
By the 20th century the feeling had become very strong that the script was too cumbersome and an impediment to progress.
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The financial and workforce pressures across the NHS are a serious impediment to progress.
Nabil Wahbeh Berkeley, Calif., June 2 , 2009 To the Editor: The Israeli settlements are a key impediment to progress in the Middle East.
Access to disease-associated cardiovascular tissues from patients has been a major impediment to progress in contrast to the diagnostic advances made by oncologists using gene expression on readily available tumor samples.
Nowadays, the absence of suitable data that describes the urban landscape in climate relevant terms for climatic models is a significant impediment to progress, even if the physics that underpins these models is universal.
This is a tremendous impediment to progress in the space industry, and is also one of the primary factors that makes space missions so risky.
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