impediment

The edict says “any persons that can express any legal impediment can denounce” the nuptials.

Despite the legal impediment, Hamza convinced Traverso to marry him.

The traffic, as in all of Los Angeles, is a serious impediment.

One obvious impediment is the difficulty of getting into the country.

The war has been a constant impediment to their grand tourism plans.

Wood may be cut close to the beach, and embarked without impediment.

The unfortunate gentleman had an impediment in his speech, and this was noted down as proving him to be a German, of course!

They are an impediment to the progress of knowledge, only when they are permanently acquiesced in.

It is here that the only practical impediment occurs to the passage of heavy shipping, between Buffalo and Chicago.

Religion is the greatest impediment to the progress of human happiness.