Such groups see copyright law as preventing or slowing human progress.

Bureaucrats can always find a good excuse to prevent progress.

This traps the player, preventing further progress with no way to reverse the action.

The ground shifted constantly beneath them as if trying to prevent progress, but they were determined to get free of this region.

"Most of us are trying to fix these problems, and he's done everything in his power to prevent progress."

The lack of it was like a blank stone wall preventing progress.

The Wissenschaftsrat has been trying to sort this one out, but the political factors seem to have prevented progress.

Like the military base, there is no wall present to prevent progress either to the left or to the right.

But egos have appeared to be even more important than issues in preventing progress toward the alliance.

But this is not a criticism, as we knew that the political context prevented further progress from being made.