Hindrances

There shall be no hindrances to my malicious plan.

Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help—may even be hindrances—to a civilized man.

We are confronted with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the substantial hindrances to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Due to the regularity of the language, speaking Esperanto gives you the feeling of driving on a freeway because all hindrances have been removed. Grammatical exceptions in national languages act like stop signs on the brain and make you feel that you're driving in city traffic.

I face nothing but hindrances.