hindrances

Let a writer go straight to the point as directly as the hindrances of language will allow.

These hindrances were frequent, when this colony was founded.

But you just go straight ahead, determined to do your duty, and lo, the hindrances disappear.

A philosopher never worries about little hindrances, for he soon learns that a delay often proves to be an advantage.

Notwithstanding all hindrances, it is an easier matter to beautify the outside than to reform that which is within.