He received from Pope Julius II a dispensation (4 January 1506) absolving him from the impediment created by his illegitimate birth to his holding an ecclesiastical benefice: in other words, he could now lawfully hold benefices that would provide the kind of ecclesiastical income that supported most university professors and scholars.
"My goal is not to be an impediment," he said.
(Speechwriters are only a minor impediment, he says).
"It's mostly about putting up obstacles and creating impediments," he told me.
And, by the time of the April meeting, prosecutors knew that they faced another impediment, this one created by legal maneuvers in the Trumps' civil case.
The sense that the school was run like a big family was the biggest impediment to creating an environment of serious learning, Ms. McCoy said.
A big impediment to creating a consumer economy are the low incomes of a generation of China's young people, the country's would-be consumers.
The most glaring impediment to creating the same kind of operation in China is the country's weak intellectual-property protection.
The biggest impediment to creating a culture of inclusiveness is the fear or stigma that accompanies conversations about race, gender, socioeconomics, politics or other types of difference.
A Broadway dressing room recalls his performance in Bernard Pomerance's play about the elephant man John Merrick: a masterpiece of self-transformation, achieved without prostheses or makeup – Bowie relied on a crooked gait and a nervous, apologetic glottal impediment to create a character who seemed less a medical freak than a wistful lost boy, puzzled by his exclusion from the human race.
In Latin America, the fundamental cultural impediment to creating a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem is lack of individual risk-taking.
