What is "hindrances"

Usage examples of "hindrances".

When your children undertake to learn, they are beset by many hindrances, encounter many obstacles—those from without and, more importantly, those from within.

For, apart from the weather's hindrances, the woman's anger had grown.

You remember I threw such hindrances as I could in your way, and made much of the risks you must run, and the impossibility of your task.