hindering

How To Use hindering In A Sentence

• The italics are mine; but the suggestion was always implicit; yet this constant wind of puritanic hatred blowing against him helped instead of hindering his progress: strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
• Few days later Laura Hall and her boyfriend were taken into custody by the authorities with charges such as hindering apprehension and tempering with the body levied against her. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
• The door began to swing inwards, but painfully slowly, his weight and the strong breeze hindering its progress.
• The foreign affairs committee also accused the foreign office of hindering its investigation into the government report, whose findings were published last December. Times, Sunday Times
• I blame a narrow hallway and ever-multiplying dust bunnies from the carpet that had regenerative growth syndrome for hindering my stair-surfing opportunities. Ten reasons to twist and shout (aka I moved out!) «
• But now experts are arguing that stabilisers, which for decades have been used to help children learn to cycle, could actually be hindering their progress, and they are launching an experiment to prove it.
• Can your father have so perfectly forgiven already the injury I did him (since you will not allow it to be any to you), in hindering you of Mrs. Cl., as to remember me with kindness? Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
• Even if we look at the situation selfishly, we will see that Britain's sterling balance situation is a big factor in hindering a return to convertibility of dollars and sterling, which is affecting us very directly. Business Action
• Millions of mines littered the country, hindering subsistence agriculture, hunting of small and large game and gathering of forest products such as mushrooms, honey, beeswax and wild fruits when in season.
• The only thing that was hindering me was my ankle.