The phrase "hamper the potential" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to hinder or limit the possibility of success or growth. Example: The lack of investment in infrastructure is starting to hamper the potential of the local economy.
One of the misconceptions that they say hamper the potential of kids of either gender is the assumption that boys won't read about girls.
Yet, lack of time, role ambiguity, and limiting beliefs may hamper the potential positive influence of departmental leadership on instructor learning and teaching.
"One issue the platform has is that it has become inundated with games funding requests, which I think will hamper the potential of future projects securing necessary funding.
Furthermore, CFTR depletion may hamper the potential interactions with other proteins, including transporters, receptors and signalling proteins.
The latter will hamper the potential use of Plk1 inhibitors for the depletion of proliferating cells from differentiated cell cultures for cell therapy and might be a concern in general.
As a result, added noise can hamper the potential advantages of sequence-based methods.
The unfavorable pharmacokinetics and low tumor specificity hampered the potential clinical utility of Onconase, a promising modality in anticancer treatment with unique targets and novel mechanism of action.
This near closure of the Indonesian seaway possibly led to a regional amplification of the global middle to late Miocene cooling trend and hampered the potential of the reef system to keep up with the rising sea-level.
Unlike the biodistribution, PET imaging of 18F-SIG343 and 18F-SIG353 showed lower tumour uptake (0.9%ID/cc and 1.3%ID/cc, respectively), resulting in low tumour-to-background contrast which hampered the potential of the radiotracers as tumour markers.
"This is a responsibility because poverty and under-nutrition damages a child's chance to thrive and also hampers the potential of countries to develop.
