Given this goal, such traditional approaches can function as a real impediment to inquiry.

Death may be dark and spiteful, a real impediment to one's career development and personal safety.

Other factors, like regulatory delays in power plant sitings, are the real impediment to new investment.

The only real impediments lie in realms of politics and human will.

In truth, the real impediment to legal action is not public opinion, but Europe's crazy quilt of laws.

"If the Government can use secret evidence against resident aliens, then there is no real constitutional impediment to using it against citizens."

But the real impediments remain historical and political.

"The real impediment at this point is the need for Congressional agreement."

This is a classic example of the attitude problem that prevents black people from succeeding, even where no real impediments exist.

The path was familiar to her and the approaching darkness was no real impediment.