11.   So far, the Ulster Unionists have refused to talk directly to Sinn Fein, a situation that most participants contend is hampering progress.

12.   The small sail area that they are able to carry on any jury rig setup will severely hamper their progress.

13.   This reticence has hampered the progress of an rray of start-ups that thought they could make insurance more consumer-friendly by using the Web.

14.   Turf wars and overlapping jurisdictions are hampering progress in the investigation of the anthrax outbreaks.

15.   Yet government reluctance, especially in continental Europe, to admit the scale or implications of the BSE epidemic still hampers progress.

16.   A new chill between Moscow and the West, however, hampered progress on some issues, five years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

17.   A slight worsening of her bronchial pneumonia Thursday hampered her progress, but was no cause for alarm, hospital spokesman A.K.Chatterjee said.

18.   But a new chill between Moscow and the West hampered progress on some issues, five years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

19.   But a new chill between Moscow and the West hampered progress on some issues, five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

20.   But lingering mistrust has hampered progress.