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Перевод: hindrance

[существительное]
помеха ; препятствие
[существительное]

Тезаурус:

1. It seems a justifiable inference, too, that, even more than had been the case in 1939, a sizeable proportion of the population would not have been saddened by Hitler's assassination, and viewed his survival as a hindrance to the ending of the war.
2. However, he could also be a tiresome prankster and thus often more of a hindrance than a help about the house - Briggs tells of practical jokes such as "blowing ashes over shelled oats spread out to dry" (from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature).
3. If anything, we're a hindrance.
4. The sail had been a hindrance, making sport of me at each whim of the wind, so I lowered it.
5. Being the wife of Herbert von Karajan is probably as much a hindrance as a help where some other painters and critics are concerned.
6. Its sluggish habit was not a hindrance, though, for it could kill with a mere glance or whiff of its breath, as it fed on poisonous herbs whose odour was fatal to man.
7. Instead of the passport opening frontiers to the traveller without let or hindrance, it has become the means of international surveillance.
8. Fear, anxiety, tension, whatever you care to call it, is a common hindrance in all sports requiring balance and results in a loss of commitment and an awkward rigidity in stance, movement becomes restricted and everything becomes more difficult to do.
9. Ironically, the specialties business, which ICI unanimously wants to retain, sees its connection with ICI more as a hindrance than a help.
10. Yes, the good old US Fifties, where trade unionists got shot dead for striking in Detroit, where blacks got lynched by the Klan without hindrance in the South, and where Senator Joe McCarthy or FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover destroyed peoples' lives for having beliefs contrary to their own.
11. AIESEC Debate : "This house believes that a University degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry."
12. Our master, King Philip IV, will not be pleased with the news that his ships cannot enter and leave the ports of Scotland without hindrance!"
13. Malta was the key to the Mediterranean and the only hindrance to Rommel's supply lines which stretched back to Italy.