"remain hampered" is a perfectly acceptable and grammatical phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that has been hindered or blocked in some way, and continues to be so. For example, "The team's progress has been and will remain hampered by a lack of resources."
Yet banks remain hampered by many less-educated immigrants' lack of familiarity with formal banks and financial services.
Efforts at restitution in other countries, like the Czech Republic, remain hampered by the reluctance of governments to relax requirements the way Germany has in an effort to remove daunting or unfair legal obstacles.
Military rescue teams that have been searching for more than 40 soldiers, inexperienced conscripts missing in the Andes since Wednesday in a blizzard, remain hampered by what Gen. Juan Emilio Cheyre, the armed forces commander, called a "snow tsunami".
But Mr Zardari, the widower of the assassinated Benazir Bhutto, will succeed: he has proved wilier than expected, though he remains vulnerable to the country's interventionist judges, who are aching to hear corruption and other charges against him.As for providing its people with jobs, Pakistan will remain hampered by its woeful infrastructure, education and economic management.
Since producing and consuming companies across the developed world remain hampered by the global economic weakness, the sector's eventual recovery will be choppy and won't likely occur until 2010, at the earliest.
And yet, more than 15 years into the Web revolution, many papers remain hampered by insufficient communication between the editors and writers generating content and those on the business side charged with selling it to advertisers.
Still, Mr. Cistecky acknowledged that the Czech Republic remained hampered by laws that could complicate restitution efforts in some cases.
As in 2008, UNAMID's work remained hampered by the lack of transport and aviation assets and logistic support.
Mr. Largey wrote in an e-mail on Wednesday that he saw "a modest uplift in earnings for 2013" for ArcelorMittal, but that the steel industry remained hampered by "overcapacity and lackluster real demand, particularly in Europe".
And on Tuesday, in a conference call with reporters, a Toyota executive said the company had only about two-and-a-half months' worth of finished vehicles in its global inventory and remained hampered by a shortage of about 150 critical parts.
An element of the Rangers following would rather exit the SPL and pay penance when building back from the lower leagues, rather than remain so hampered that competing for the main championship was impossible in any case.
