How To Use Impediment In A Sentence

Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
Possibly in a bid to allay fears that nationalism and protectionism were driving the agenda--though it's hard to wonder how they couldn't in a country whose motto translates as "we wish to remain what we are"--a Luxembourg minister said on Tuesday that the takeover law, which it plans to enact in May, was in no way aimed at creating impediments to Mittal's play for Arcelor. Luxembourg Minister: We're Not Trying To Stop Mittal
In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego.
Second, to what extent are the impediments determined by structural factors beyond the control of the region, and to what extent are they determined by endogenous factors that can be mitigated by regional policy?
This wasn't easy when his cigar, speech impediment and habit of walking about conspired to make him inaudible. Times, Sunday Times

Damage to the left hemisphere of her brain has caused a speech impediment that reminds listeners of an overseas accent. Times, Sunday Times
In addition, this secondary amine presents some steric impediment by the glucose molecule from the terpenoid moiety.
On the other hand, age is no impediment to a high-flying career in the City or in IT: many of the current crop of dot.com whizz-kids are under 30.
'Not exactly,' said Guy; 'the "impedimenta" are, some at Varenna, some at the inn with Arnaud.' The Heir of Redclyffe
Damage to the left hemisphere of her brain has caused a speech impediment that reminds listeners of an overseas accent. Times, Sunday Times
Catholic with a baptised non-Catholic constitutes a "relative" impediment and needs a special dispensation and provisoes, such as a guarantee to bring up the children in the Roman faith to give it validity. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.
In a number of developing countries, war has been an additional impediment to progress.
And time too bursts back into my consciousness with all its impedimenta of mind and matter, rule and law. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
The young man now has memory loss and a speech impediment and could have died.
The disciplines of yoga were designed to destroy the unconscious impediments to enlightenment and to decondition the human personality. Buddha
She has a speech impediment and although she could not always clearly enunciate her words, her message was clear.
Et quia inter nos & vos, nostr髎que & vestros subditos hinc inde foueri desideramus mutuam concordiam & amorem; ita quod mercatores nostri & vestri mercandisas suas in nostris & vestris regnis & dominijs liber�, & absque impedimento valeant exercere, prout temporibus progenitorum nostrorum fieri consueuit, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
These books know their market: again, this is not a youthquaking story of hard work, sheer pleasure, tradition and talent, but a tale of how Gareth struggled to make it with a speech impediment.
As I carried considerable weight in my gown, about ten pounds of silver, our two revolvers, the telescope, our silver-lined tsamba basins and dry stockings for us both, Mr. Rijnhart cautioned me not to fall off, for with such impedimenta about me he could do nothing to save me. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
Too many marching alexandrine feet for me, pieds, like the pied in the Pied Piper or the Piedmont, but not impediment, though I once saw a man wearing a pedometer the Lone Ranger had sent him. Poetic Justice
Huic rogationi partim conscii sibi, alii ex partium invidia pericula metuentes, quoniam aperte resistere non poterant, quin illa et alia talia placere sibi faterentur, [238] occulte per amicos ac maxime per homines nominis Latini et socios Italicos impedimenta parabant. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
Tapping out dots and dashes can sometimes be easier for people with physical or speech impediments.
With an elocutionary erudition surpassing that of his friendly rival, conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., Moynihan held forth with a staccato bravado -- that sometimes bordered on the comical -- punctuated by pregnant pauses, the result of a speech impediment and not, as Moynihan's political opponents sometimes suggested, a drinking problem. Michael Sigman: Pat Moynihan's Letters Illuminate an Extraordinary Life
The court was concerned with impediment and impossibility affecting the bringing of legal proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
Everything in the mining industry is on a vast scale and the boom in production means that getting basic supplies has become a serious impediment to growth. Times, Sunday Times
Fascinating it was too: almost no plants, entirely taken over by garden impedimenta and decorative items for the home.
You will see that there is a lot of impedimenta in even the highest level language.
Rather, it's very clear that Will cut the line because it was an inconvenient impediment to his journalistic goal, which was to portray Webb as a "boor" who was rude to the Commander in Chief, and to show that this new upstart is a threat to Washington's alleged code of "civility and clear speaking" (his words). George Will Distorts WaPo's Own Reporting To Smear Jim Webb
A few hours later, he had labored his way into the depths of the wilderness of miscellaneous impedimenta and found himself facing a cloudy window.
But where there are not these impediments, experience telleth us that the success is much greater, at least as to the bowing of people to more calmness and teachableness; yet we cannot expect they all will be brought to so much reason. The Reformed Pastor
In a number of developing countries, war has been an additional impediment to progress.
To prove a passage by the Norwest, without any land impedimentes to hinder the same, by aucthoritie of writters, and experience of trauellers, contrary to the former obiections. The Worldes Hydrographical Discription
I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined. Chapter 2
War is one of the greatest impediments to human progress.
Many ladies entirely spoil the sit of the skirts by retaining the usual impedimenta of petticoats.
The removal of regulatory and other structural impediments to private sector investment could also play a big role in jump-starting the foreign investment drive.
She hasn't found her age the slightest impediment to finding assignments as a freelance journalist. Times, Sunday Times
The real whopper is when McCain calls for easing "regulatory, accounting and tax impediments to raising capital. McCain flounders, reads teleprompter on big economic speech
As a response to these impediments and to increase domestic sales, the company was making efforts to improve penetration into remote areas of the country.
According to Hobbes, 'Liberty is the absence of all impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical qualities of the agent.' Mind and Motion and Monism
Anyway, we went for a curry and it was good to see him again, although I would have preferred it if your mother hadn't come; and I think he might have preferred that too, having managed to evade his own impedimenta for the evening.
Often, their very human needs come across as clunky impediments to economic progress.
As stated succinctly in ASGISA: "For both the public infrastructure and the private investment programmes, the single greatest impediment is shortage of skills - including professional skills such as engineers and scientists; managers such as financial, personnel and project managers; and skilled technical employees such as artisans and IT technicians. Speech by Joan Fubbs on Treasury Budget Vote
Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, one of the co-sponsors of the reform act, asserted, "China's currency manipulation has been among the greatest impediments to our manufacturing sector.
It seemed cruelty to prolong the conversation, and soon after the order was given to lower the sail and unstep the mast, for the wind had pretty well dropped as they swept in towards where the vessels were anchored, and the distance being short, the men took to their oars once more, while, with no impediment to their view, the doctor took out his glass and offered it to Morny. The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise
Hence in Roman law affinity arising from a valid marriage, whether consummated or not, constituted a diriment impediment between the affined in all degrees throughout the direct line, and to the second degree (civil method of computing) in the indirect or oblique line. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Triumphs are claimed, disasters are someone else's concerns, and if there's trouble, there are union rules or some of the other impedimenta to the full implementation of ideas such as disclosure, transparency and responsibility.
It is often presumed that the speech impediment is caused by shyness, a neglected childhood or social awkwardness. Times, Sunday Times
Too little humility - what we'd call arrogance or conceit - is easily seen as a spiritual impediment, but the opposite is also true.
It is often presumed that the speech impediment is caused by shyness, a neglected childhood or social awkwardness. Times, Sunday Times
Mountbatten's "failure to negotiate in good faith was the only impediment to consummating the transaction" with Taconic, the firm's complaint states. Condo Complex Sparks a Battle
She blames deficient preparation and insufficient commitment on the part of the school, but she also notes impediments in the exams themselves.
However critics of Keynesian economics consider that labour markets would clear if government and institutional impediments to greater flexibility were removed.
And afflicted people will tacitly struggle against such connotations until the spectrum of acceptance broadens and mental impediments are no longer considered disabilities, but respected facts of life.
Thanks to the kindness of Captain Buckley, of the Scots 'Fusileer Guards, and Colonel Somerset, who lent us means of conveyance for our "impedimenta," I was able to move up in one day. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
Zebra mussels, phragmites, and exotic snails are but a few of the more pervasive impediments to the recovery of some listed species.
However, a comment from him on his radio show has forced a different take on life's impedimenta.
ObjectiveTo explore the possible pathogeny of tension headache TH asas some emotional and cognitive function impediment.
Congregation of the Sacraments (7 March, 1910), the power to dispense kings or royal princes from impediments, diriment or impedient, is henceforth reserved in a special manner to the Holy See, and all faculties granted heretofore in such cases to certain ordinaries are revoked. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Her experiences at Scutari convinced her that the impediment to maximal military capability was illness.
By this last discouery it seemed most manifest that the passage was free and without impediment toward the North: but by reason of the Spanish fleet and vnfortunate time of M. Secretaries death, the voyage was omitted and neuer sithens attempted. The Worldes Hydrographical Discription
Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, one of the co-sponsors of the reform act, asserted, "China's currency manipulation has been among the greatest impediments to our manufacturing sector.
These difficulties would be ignored if he appeared a huge impediment, but he is ineffectual rather than terrible.
It is probably the need to accept that uncomfortable reality that is the greatest impediment to ensuring donor registries are well subscribed.
He observed that the ancients allowed of little baggage, which they very properly called "impedimenta;" whereas the moderns burthen themselves with it to such a degree, that 50,000 of our present soldiers are allowed as much baggage as was formerly thought sufficient for all the armies of the Roman empire. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
The King's Speech, a movie based on the true story of Britain's King George VI and his struggle with a speech impediment, has received 14 British Academy Film Award nominations. 'The King's Speech' Nominated for 14 British Film Awards
A common language represents an important mechanism for overcoming physical impediments to communication.
You have an exorbitant auditory impediment," replied the doctor, conscious of the necessity for maintaining a certain iatric mystique, and fully aware that "a pea in the ear" was unlikely to earn him any kudos. Bookworm
The main impediment to progress in America is Republicans. Think Progress » CPAC audience boos former GOP Rep. Bob Barr for saying waterboarding is torture.
A true marriage is one duly contracted and capable of being proved in the ordinary way; a presumptive marriage, when the law presumes a marriage to exist; a putative marriage, when it is believed to be valid, but is in reality null and void, owing to the existence of a hidden diriment impediment. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Another impediment to methylphenidate ever being placed alongside NoDoz and other caffeine pills is its potential for causing cardiac arrhythmias and for abuse as a recreational drug.
The adherence of the ice to the bed of the stream or other objects is always downstream from the place where they are formed; in large streams it is frequently many miles below; a large part of them do not become fixed, but as they come in contact with each other, regelate and form spongy masses, often of considerable size, which drift along with the current, and are often troublesome impediments to the use of water power. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
In fact our own homegrown bureaucracy and often inefficient public services are more of an impediment. Times, Sunday Times
They filled two trolleys with crockery, kettles, pots and pans and all the other impedimenta needed to kit out a new home.
The ensuing disintermediation subsequently proved an important impediment to the economy's recovery.
"We must address some of the structural impediments to our success, " she says.
To attach oneself as a dependent or an impediment; cling.
In short, the lack of business transaction security is widely acknowledged as a major impediment to widespread ecommerce.
Lack of a state inspection service is a serious impediment to creating a more locally integrated farm economy in Kentucky.
It's quite hard to argue to a 16-year-old that bad hair is a serious impediment in life. Times, Sunday Times
It also brought out that the young Erika had a speech impediment - a stammer that was so bad she had to go to a special school for one year!
There was little benefit from carping about the organizational source of the disciplinary impedimenta.
The unpolishable ruggedness of the national character is still an impediment to them, even in that particular line where they are best qualified to excel. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
Introducing a brief plot summary should eliminate this impediment.
The best doctors were consulted and various diagnoses were made, although no serious impediment to the match was found. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
What is the matter with this man and his brain-to-mouth impediment?
A habitual contemplation of his divine form, dispelling impediments, blesses a devotee with the kinds of successes.
The lack of availability of affordable childcare is still a serious impediment to work for very many women. Times, Sunday Times
His main impediment is his surname and the sense that he is an establishment figure. Times, Sunday Times
In short, the lack of business transaction security is widely acknowledged as a major impediment to widespread ecommerce.
Somehow or another all concerned manage to avoid braining each other with guitars, mic stands and various other musical impedimenta.
In fact our own homegrown bureaucracy and often inefficient public services are more of an impediment. Times, Sunday Times
Two of his legs were spancelled with a piece of straw rope, but being used to such impediment he came over without any awkwardness. The King of Ireland's Son
In fact our own homegrown bureaucracy and often inefficient public services are more of an impediment. Times, Sunday Times
Off with those absurd impediments to our vision, " said Boots, jollily, to her. Cinnamon Roll
However critics of Keynesian economics consider that labour markets would clear if government and institutional impediments to greater flexibility were removed.
By the doctrine of "diriment impediments" the Pope or a duly constituted representative can declare that a marriage has been null and void from the very beginning because of some impediment defined in the canon law. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.
The last of these had seemed for a long time a serious impediment to his career. Times, Sunday Times
Matter, it is agreed, must be void of quality in order to accept the types of the universe, so and much more must the soul be kept formless if there is to be no infixed impediment to prevent it being brimmed and lit by the The Six Enneads.
Subservient Catholics and court theologians especially found it useful as warranting the secular power in making laws concerning validity and invalidity, diriment impediments, and the like. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
To them, even the treacherous and bureaucratized unions represent an impediment.
And for fault of iustice to be executed, by the said gouernours and keepers, our soueraign lord the king aboue named, after he shall conueniently be requested by the parties damnified, is bound within three moneths next ensuing (all lawfull impediments being excepted) to make correspondent, iust, and reasonable satisfaction, vnto the saide partes endamaged. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The main impediment to this profit of one ounce of silver per transaction (minus any shipping fees) was the inability to secure enough gold. Capped Head Left Quarter Eagle, Large Diameter, 1821-1827 : Coin Guide
To recall, the state is deemed to enforce all directives of Apex Courts without any impediment.
Case-detection through antenatal screening may have logistic, financial, and manpower impediments to implementation but it remains the favoured strategy.
As a result of the straining of her vocal cords during her crisis, Fe is left with a speech impediment whereby she cannot vocalize every word in a sentence.
Doctors once assured patients who suffered brain damage to that hemisphere that theirs was a minor impediment, yet they struggled to understand jokes, metaphors or sarcasm. Times, Sunday Times
The person may have had difficulty in communicating with her because she has a speech impediment and so he or she may not be aware that the woman had been assaulted.
Employers in this country should be free to set a reasonable dress code and a headscarf is no impediment. Times, Sunday Times
Slower in the developmental process than White Baptists due to certain inconsistencies, impediments, and retardations, National Baptist Conventions among Negroes did not begin evolutional excrescency before 1880. An Outline of Baptist History: A Splendid Reference Work for Busy Workers. A Record of the Struggles and Triumphs of Baptist Pioneers and Builders
Their boycott of the talks constitutes a serious impediment to peace negotiations.
The naked-lady fetishist, however, is unmoved by such features as hairstyle and clothing, regarding them as distractions and impediments to the one thing that truly interests him - her naked body.
The only other possible impediment to romping home with a brace of seats in the next general election would be if they were to be generally held responsible for the collapse of the peace process.
And besides, if the joint is to be stiffened by callus, it were better that this should not take place when the arm is extended, for this position will be a great impediment and little advantage; if the arm be wholly bent, it will be more useful; but it will be much more convenient to have the joint in the intermediate position when it becomes ankylosed. On Fractures
Here, the impediment is reversed – the body is not too old but too young. DOUBLE VIRGINITY • by Kevin Shamel
Even now, stammering has remained a confusing speech impediment for the sufferer as well as for those who have attempted to cure it through medicines.
'The papilionaceous and exorbitant auditory impediment?' Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Though she eventually recovered consciousness, she was left with a speech impediment and the part of the brain that controls emotions was impaired.
What's the biggest impediment to unity that you face? Christianity Today
Some obvious physical reasons for this can be if there are impediments or dependancies that limit how well/poorly a worker can do for instance a machine that tops out at a certain rate. Klemeš on Stochastic Processes « Climate Audit
There are no legal impediments to their appealing against the decision.
Fortunately the day was overcast, so we didn't have a scorching sun in which to carry around tiny twins and all their essential equipment, apparatuses, impedimenta, equipage and whatnot.
Lin and his students have found in tests that the system can penetrate 1-inch particle board, but concrete could be more of an impediment, he said.
About 1190 Bernard of Pavia uses freely the expression, which became classical, "impedit contrahendum et dirimit contractus", and further he enumerated the impediments: "sunt autem quæ matrimonium impediunt xiv", but his list is not definitive; the technical names of each impediment remain for some time longer unsettled. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
I do not have a speech impediment, as my hearing loss didn't develop till I was about seven years old.
On many federal lands, one such "impediment" stipulates that drilling must be halted during periods of wildlife migration.
So, I hope she would stand up, what, in my judgment, is best for America, and that is to make sure we do not have legal impediments in the way of universities assuring and guaranteeing diversity on campus.
The single greatest impediment is shortage of skills, including professional, managerial and technical skills. CONTENTS:
If the court could remove the legal impediments to education provided by the state, why couldn't it also read, in penumbras and emanations, any number of other rights and privileges that they thought it would be nice for people to have?
Their 'impedimenta' were thus safely transported to the opposite bank, the whole process occupying about an hour. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
Demetrius was back and functioning fine, though sometimes his words slurred, but the doctors were confident the minor speech impediment was temporary.
For us, coming down to Seattle, we came down with a slogan of fighting the Global Free Logging Agreement, which is what we call the multilateral impediment on investments that was a key component of the WTO. Democracy Now!
The main impediment to growth was a lack of capital.
In a number of developing countries, war has been an additional impediment to progress.
They accuse universities of being inflexible, inefficient, and unaccountable, and they view the tenure system as an impediment to effective university governance.
When the Decretum of Gratian was published in the twelfth century, this impediment was recognized as a diriment one and it became part of the canon law of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
While no major change in strategy is expected in December, critics could use the latest assessments to argue that the continued investment of American resources and lives is misguided, particularly when the main impediment to progress that analysts cite is beyond American control. Taliban unscathed by U.S. strikes
According to Cornell University biologists, the reason for success of this technique may be that the fishing line mimics the "impedimenta" warning strings spiders construct near their webs to keep birds from flying through them and destroying their work. 8: Plant protection and pest control
He suffered from a speech impediment, was unschooled and never learned to read.
Nevertheless, it is not the desert of your bodies, for they are often a great impediment and retardment to the spirit, and lodge the enemy within their walls, when he is chased out of the mind by the law of the The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
And even then, this detail is often lost, an accent overwhelmed by the loud plastic awnings, hawkers' kerb-spreads and squatters' impedimenta that define the metropolitan street.
Now, with the simpler "enablement" process that the Green Plug/Imagination partnership makes possible for many products, this impediment has been removed. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
One of the men, the one not wearing a tie, proved to have an extreme speech impediment but he was very eager.
One must begin to question all of the bureaucratic impedimenta that a government-run space exploration program must carry with it when it tries to venture off the surface of the Earth.
The lackadaisical attitude of the members is one of the main impediments to the club expanding its activities.
In addition, this secondary amine presents some steric impediment by the glucose molecule from the terpenoid moiety.
ObjectiveTo explore the possible pathogeny of tension headache TH asas some emotional and cognitive function impediment.
He never styles himself an Everyman, and makes an issue of his speech impediment: ‘It's a stammer, not scat jazz.’
Wilful impediment of the sacred moves was not only ill-mannered, but the worst form of blasphemy.
He was a frail, shy, smallish, unhealthy boy with the pale skin and transparent eyes of his Scottish forebears and a speech impediment that some described as a lisp and others as a slight stutter. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
Their boycott of the talks constitutes a serious impediment to peace negotiations.
A further reason is that the Church claims jurisdiction over such mixed marriages, institutes diriment impediments to them, and grants dispensations. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The sextet devoted way too much ribaldry to speech impediments and Jesus' termagant mum, and the film-making craft, which I'd remembered as spiffy, now looked slack.
There should be no greater legal impediment to the movement and trade in one case than in the others.
Touchwood had scarcely extricated himself from this impediment, and again commenced his researches after the clergyman, when his course was once more interrupted by a sort of pressgang, headed by Sir Bingo Binks, who, in order to play his character of a drunken boatswain to the life, seemed certainly drunk enough, however little of a seaman. Saint Ronan's Well
These are all hinderances, clogs, and burdens, and, according to the proper Latin word, they are called impedimenta bellica. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
Also, intrapersonal and interpersonal experiences apart from the parenting realm are explored so that personal resources are cultivated and impediments to effective parenting are addressed.
The day that the English - or Scots or Welsh - tramper can cross the moors of his native Britain without fear of impediment from game-preserving landowners or their hirelings, that day will the Devil be finally foiled and the spirit of Wild Edric be liberated for ever from its dungeon beneath the Stiperstones. Wild Edric
Parents thus become an impediment to successful parenting, in need of professional re-education.
But compliance costs are a very major impediment to growth for smaller businesses.
In demystifying the little-understood speech impediment, the award-winning film reveals myths and fascinating truths about stuttering, and has won praise from stutterers of all ages.
The open-air-stage in one of the roads in Pykara was no impediment to the passers-by who turned onlookers after the tear-jerking tale of ‘Kalyani’ shook them, especially the women segment.
To effect this, the army should march, crossing the Koharee disencumbered of the 'impedimenta' of war, before daylight the 29th inst. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
I had a bad speech impediment. Times, Sunday Times
In short, the lack of business transaction security is widely acknowledged as a major impediment to widespread ecommerce.
This impediment no longer stood in the way; early in his term, therefore, President Lincoln signed the bill authorizing the construction of the Union Pacific -- a name doubly significant, as marking the union of the East and the West and also recognizing the sentiment of loyalty or union that this great enterprise was intended to promote. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states
The stage is oval in plan, behind a proscenium arch, flanked by paired piers and columns that support a parted impediment.
And the inadequacies in the laws themselves are a third impediment to justice.
Yet if an ecclesiastical form had been used, and the nullity from clandestinity was questioned, his presence is required; but if the impediment of clandestinity clearly appears he need not appeal. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
She investigated the matter and discovered that the boy had been neither deaf nor dumb but was born with a speech impediment.
Daley's not even as entertaining as his father, Richard J. Daley, whose speech impediments churned out some of the most memorable malapropisms in American history: "He's a man of great statue" and "The policeman isn't here to create disorder, he's here to preserve dis order" (dis in the second instance is Chicagoese for "this".) Ray Hanania: Leno Causes Seismic Shift in Delicate Balance Between Husbands and Wives Across America
He will need to compensate for his hearing impediment by using other senses to warn of dangers.
Insufficient domestic demand was the main impediment to enterprise activity.
Hac quidem deliberatione impedimentum amovere cupivimus quod detrimentum inferre posset aperiendae dialogo ianuae atque ita Episcopos «Fraternitatemque S. RORATE CÆLI
She was too tall for ballet, and a minor speech impediment and poor health excluded her from nursing.
But it is the lack of price transparency that remains the biggest impediment to genuine competition. Times, Sunday Times
After all, if there would be no legal impediment stopping them from entering, they were just trying to cheat. Times, Sunday Times
The ball can be replaced without penalty if its movement is not a result of removing a loose impediment.
The impediments are a complex mix of political and economic power intertwined with issues of culture and ethnicity.
On education, Mr Gore's thralldom to the teachers' unions strikes us as an impediment to innovative thinking.
Is stuttering considered a speech impediment or a learning disability?
We'll soon find out if her posture is any kind of impediment to winning a Senate seat. Sharron Angle: We shut out the media because they're unprofessional
One impediment to the deal could be the emergence of a counterbidder. Times, Sunday Times
He was satisfied there was no legal impediment to the marriage.
Again the matrimonial courts may find on the evidence adduced that a marriage is null and void; there may have been a known or a hidden diriment impediment when the marriage was contracted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
I visited I-knit as a half-term treat a few weeks ago and was impressed by the range of publications and impedimenta on sale, more really than the yarn. - for example, a shawl pin with an ebony stick to secure it. St Patrick's Day
But nature has liberally supplied them with a fund of wit and sprightliness, which is certainly no small inducement to those, who have only transient glimpses of their charms, to wish very earnestly for a removal of those impediments, that obstruct their more frequent presence. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
The mouth cover of the cowl was always very symbolic of Cass, who had difficulties interacting with people due to her violent upbringing and speech impediment. Who’s behind the mask this time? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
I followed behind somewhat encumbered by our impedimenta.
There are also significant structural impediments to presidential control of the executive branch of government.
The whole journey was through scrub; but this was chiefly of rosewood, which is not nearly so formidable an impediment as brigalow. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
And while the next UK government may be in hock to bad ideas and fail to deliver such growth, it will face few structural impediments to implementing its ideas about what needs to be done. Matthew Yglesias » Department of Exaggeration
In the classical liberal view trade unions, like business monopolies, are impediments to competition among producers in the free marketplace.
To attach oneself as a dependent or an impediment; cling.
While this obviously is not a bar to proceeding again, it is certainly an additional impediment.
It's an unavoidably communal experience; no matter how pointedly you pile shopping bags and assorted impedimenta on the seat beside you, sooner or later someone's going to insist on initiating a conversation.
‘His lisp was a natural speech impediment, but I think [the producers] were concerned over how it would be received,’ he says.
And is it made more reasonable by the fact that when I brought about the THATNESS of the evil WHATNESS decreed to come by the thatness of all else beside, I did so consentingly and aware of no 'impediments outside of my own nature'? Familiar Letters of William James I
But there are impediments, namely the fickle nature of the draft and the growing impatience among fans and current players to win. Adam Dunn and free agency: the Nationals' strategy and its risks
Aaron Lazare, "Go Ahead Say You're Sorry" Psychology Today (Jan-Feb 1995) 22 notes that "the greatest impediment to apology is a pervasive cultural attitude that views apology as a weakness, an emotional expression antithetical to traditional American values of autonomy and independence. The Death of Common Courtesy and the Corrosion of the Golden Rule

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