There was a time when the chief impediment to reviving dances was that the work was out of fashion.
And though the strategy identifies Japan's aging, shrinking population as a chief impediment to growth, it suggests few new ways of dealing with it.
Perhaps the chief impediment to greater popularity is the very quality that centers his achievement: the raw, rugged, vocalized, weirdly pitched sound of his alto saxophone.
Despite all this, Mr Netanyahu is hoping that his friends in America will persuade Mr Obama that the fence-busting Palestinians are the chief impediment to peace.
In her view their control of energy generation, transmission and distribution is the chief impediment to competition.Energy is again preoccupying Europe.
Until today, the party had always argued that people had unfairly singled out the disarmament issue as the chief impediment to bringing peace to Ulster.
They have become the chief impediment to speedy approval of a bailout plan, because Democrats say they will not push one through on their own.
Mason was elated until he recounted the conversation to a friend, Lord Donoughmore, who told him that Palmerston had said this precisely to forestall a last-minute appeal from the South: slavery had always been the chief impediment to recognition.
Colonial protection was the chief impediment to immigrants being attacked by resentful indigenous peoples, or even clashing among themselves.Post-colonial societies have been dealing with this worry ever since.
But the chief impediment to the city's rebirth has been a nine-year legal battle with a Connecticut builder, Carabetta Enterprises Inc., who claims sole rights to redevelop a 1.4-mile stretch of oceanfront.
