Due to the regularity of the language, speaking Esperanto gives you the feeling of driving on a freeway because all hindrances have been removed. Grammatical exceptions in national languages act like stop signs on the brain and make you feel that you're driving in city traffic.

Lack of money is a serious hindrance in their fight to conquer cancer.

There shall be no hindrances to my malicious plan.

Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help—may even be hindrances—to a civilized man.

If you're not motivated, go back home. You'll just be a hindrance.

Please, I'm asking you. Don't be a hindrance right now.

Some consider linguistic diversity a hindrance; I consider it precious.

Those new rules were more of a hindrance than a help.

We are confronted with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the substantial hindrances to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I'm just a hindrance.