They complained that one minute the United States says it wants developing countries to rely on free trade rather than handouts, the next it enacts a law, which they say is the biggest impediment in the free trade of food, the one commodity all these countries produce.
This lack of awareness was the biggest impediment in taking any initiative toward protecting children and other non-smoking adults from SHS.
The limited stiffness of the micro-end mills is a big impediment in machining difficult-to-cut materials, such as hardened steels and Ti-alloys.
Anand: Fear and silence are the biggest impediments to innovation in a corporate environment.
Now, thanks in large part to the work of Chamber opponents, we've come to learn that the biggest business lobby in the world is also one of the biggest impediments to real democracy in the U.S., and that they're a huge force in opposing health care reform, employee free choice and other labor legislation, veterans' rights, banking regulations, and, of course, transparency.
"One of the biggest impediments [to gender equality in education] is the social misconception," says Mr. Singh.
Along with the fact that they are frequently slowed down in their learning because of a poor knowledge of the Serbian language, the biggest impediment lies in the bureaucratic procedures for the recognition of their foreign school certificates.
One of the biggest impediments to coordinated phylogenetic research in this area is the lack of standardization of exemplar taxa and characters for study.
One of the biggest impediments to conducting large-scale biodiversity surveys lies in the taxonomic identification of target organisms.
Corruption has been one of the biggest impediments to economic growth and development for several countries in the region, analysts said.
