"hamper the progress" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to impede or hinder the advancement or development of something. Example: The constant rain has started to hamper the progress of our construction project, causing delays and setbacks.
Roadside bombs also continued to hamper the progress of the troops in streets, deserted by people fleeing the fighting.
Throughout this period internal political strife in Genoa was almost incessant, but it did not seriously hamper the progress of the community.
The emergence of multi-drug resistant strains hamper the progress of current antimalarial therapy and displayed an urgent need for new antimalarials by targeting novel drug targets.
The Jets cannot afford to have anything hamper the progress of Smith, whom the new general manager John Idzik drafted in the second round with the belief that he could lead them into the future.
The largest aspect of the problem is not that we will "run out" of strategic elements, but rather that demand is projected to increase to alarmingly high levels in the near future, which will hamper the progress of energy-critical technologies as well as many consumer products.
Beginning on and about November 22, 2009, The Pennsylvania State University began to receive numerous communications (emails, phone calls and letters) accusing Dr. Michael E. Mann of having engaged in acts that included manipulating data, destroying records and colluding to hamper the progress of scientific discourse around the issue of anthropogenic global warming from approximately 1998.
The difficulty in establishing a stable HSV-latently-infected cell line has hampered the progress of HSV latent infection research.
These limitations hamper the development of platforms for embodiment which in turn hampers the progress on understanding of how biological systems fundamentally work.
Errors in statesmanship, failures of governance, profound racial bigotry and religious intolerance have hampered the progress and marred the record of the Anglo-American world.
Many judicial and administrative reforms of the French era survived, but concessions made to the church in a concordat concluded in 1818, as well as financial retrenchment, hampered the progress of the bourgeoisie.
In 1913, as in 1912, wars and rumors of wars hampered the progress of archaeological exploration in classic lands, especially in the region of the eastern Mediterranean.
