serious impediment

collocation in English

meaningsofseriousandimpediment

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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impediment
noun[C]
uk
/ɪmˈped.ɪ.mənt/us
/ɪmˈped.ə.mənt/
something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult ...
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(Definition ofseriousandimpedimentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Lack of interest and debate, not to mention transparency and access to information, is aseriousimpediment to current relations on environmental and security issues.
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A philosophical reversal presents an even moreseriousimpedimentto the use of architectural patterns.
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That provision removed the onlyseriousimpedimentto unlimited technical cooperation.
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Though we are unable at present to quantify exactly the extent of such repeated loss of past learning, it does seem likely to be aseriousimpedimentto rapid acquisition.
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People have recognized that debt problems are aseriousimpedimentto healthy development in the most indebted countries.
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They are also aseriousimpedimentto democratisation, political stability and social and economic development.
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This to my mind is aseriousimpedimentfor smaller enterprises, particularly those seeking to start up.
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That will be aseriousimpedimentto local cider and wine makers.
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His attention was called to the fact that the failure to provide these things has proved aseriousimpedimentto the transfer of the miners.
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The incidence of royalty, a non-profit-related levy, was the mostseriousimpediment.
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Are we to understand that that is in fact aseriousimpedimentto the selection of amendments?
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That is aseriousimpedimentto health service delivery.
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It is true that what could be called "frozen conflicts" are aseriousimpedimentto the development of the region.
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We pointed out that this will undoubtedly prove a mostseriousimpedimentto the free movement of labour within any establishment.
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Travel costs are aseriousimpedimentto their taking up the careers that they wish to follow.
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We do not consider that shortage of sterling is aseriousimpedimentto the development of tourism.
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I think that the delays at our ports are becoming a veryseriousimpedimentto continued exports to some markets.
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Disputes have been a mostseriousimpediment, and voluntary absenteeism, although the paper shows that there has been some improvement, is still of serious dimensions.
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