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the impediment
noun
A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.
Exact(60)
Time is the impediment".
What's the impediment here?
Sometimes, the impediment is violence.
There is also the impediment of sex.
We should consider the impediment we are to society".
For Kerr, the impediment to motherhood is golf, and there is no automatic relief.
Maybe politics are the impediment, and Chairman Bernanke has been forced to hide his inner professor.
As one wag has said, the impediment is that everyone's second choice is to do nothing.
"So in my mind, the distance from Manhattan isn't the impediment to development".
Still, the impediment of returning to square one can be daunting.
The terms may differ, but the impediment is essentially the same.
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