How To Use Impeding In A Sentence

  • The boundaries between grains act like barriers to electric charge carriers, impeding the flow of current.
  • Fallen rock is impeding the progress of rescue workers.
  • I really don't feel like writing a post this week: feeling like an impeding storm is rolling-in at a time when our "levies" - the defense - are shattered to bits. Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • In a submission to a review of the rules which the watchdog has launched, he said on behalf of the Government that Ipsa was "failing in many respects" and was "impeding" the work of MPs. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • He can best aid both the process and the country by neither impeding nor cheerleading from the sidelines as congress excercises their proper constitutional mandate. Matthew Yglesias » Above the Law?
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  • At the same time, impeding the efforts of soldiers at war serves no constructive purpose.
  • Fannie Mae and the executives it is indemnifying are lawyering this case to death and impeding justice while swindling U.S. taxpayers, since the federal government, which took control of the company in 2008, is ultimately footing the bill. Fannie Mae, wasting taxpayers' money and time
  • Of the factors impeding industrial activity, only competitive imports increased their negative impact in June.
  • Moreover, they are impeding humanitarian access to something approaching one million people who are languishing in camps desperately short of food and medicine.
  • It did not succeed in impeding the war effort [in the Philippines] ... Christopher Lydon: Noam Chomsky: the American Socrates on an Upbeat (AUDIO)
  • The Five Dissenting Brethren and the other "thraward wits" in the Assembly could still persevere in their struggle with the Presbyterian majority, debating every proposition that implied a surrender of Congregationalism, and conscious that in so impeding a Presbyterian settlement they were pleasing a growing body of their fellow-countrymen. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
  • I then folded one, wet in arnica and water, and laid it on the collar bone, put two other bands, like a pair of suspenders, over the shoulders, crossing them both in front and behind, pinning the ends to the diaper, which gave the needed pressure without impeding the circulation anywhere. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
  • As a result, the Developer is inclined to blame the Planner as one who is inflexible and who seems to delight in impeding the speedy fulfilment of vital economic decisions. Metropolitan Toronto—Planners Dilemma
  • Maybe your deficient mammary is impeding your chi flow, or something. Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess!
  • Yet that prodigious concatenation of evils, which should be devastating, is not notably impeding the nation.
  • Each had their own path and they glided on narrow passageways between each other, smiling or bowing but not impeding.
  • Second, that by impeding the market mechanism it may restrict consumer choice.
  • With this patient, it is likely that profound family conflict is impeding the acknowledgment and acceptance of approaching death.
  • Might not the Federation aggrieve the Klingons by impeding their expansion? Harbinger
  • While the outflux of so many Edmonton musicians is alarming, DeMarco says he didn't leave because he thought the city was impeding his success.
  • The cutthroat competitive botchery of the someprofits are giving the real non-profits a bad name and are impeding the less-than-profits from doing the real grassroots mobilization. CounterPunch
  • The group says that parked cars on one side of Devonshire Street appear to be impeding visibility for vehicles pulling out of Suresnes Road.
  • But entry regulations are impeding new sources of supply to the public.
  • Choose a deduplication solution that can deduplicate at the byte level without impeding backup performance.
  • Mutations impede the flow of chloride, causing the mucus to accumulate and impeding the hair-like particles called cilia from beating back and forth to clear out the mucus. Gene Discovery Was Only First Step
  • This may reflect the role of the Alps in impeding free flow of people between Italy and the rest of Europe. Genetic Map of Europe Features the Lactase Mutation
  • We have already seen that Articles 23 to 25 are designed to prevent customs duties, or charges equivalent thereto, from impeding the free flow of goods.
  • The beetles lay their eggs in trees and the resulting larvae bore into the wood, feeding on the tree's cambium, sapwood, and heartwood and impeding the movement of water and nutrients through the tree.
  • Because that's all that seems to be "impeding" his execution of his duties, not any trial and conviction. Illinois Dems Move To Force Blago To Leggo
  • And it stops the glare from the sun impeding your viewing pleasure too.
  • Bush didn't use this power because he had no interest in impeding the BPP, which was infamous for rubber-stamping executions. The Texas Clemency Memos
  • High salinity is one of the most important environmental stresses impeding crop growth.
  • They have rattled the narcos, impeding some trafficking routes and increasing weapons seizures.
  • The bollards at each end have been successful in keeping out vehicles, without impeding the passage of bicycles, prams etc.
  • Under certain circumstances this can be termed impeding-see RCW 46.61.425. The Bellingham Herald: Sports News
  • Fallen rock is impeding the progress of rescue workers.
  • They probably also had elevated jugular venous pressure from impeding of venous return, which would cause an elevated intracranial pressure.
  • As I tried to enter the concourse, a slow person was impeding my progress.
  • After several unsuccessful attempts he is kicked out of his therapy group for impeding the progress of his fellow oddballs.
  • For I am sure he is one of the greatest enemies to his King & to his country, — I mean in imbar - assing & impeding the best good & interest of N. Hamp by preventing all he possibly can the supply of the publick Treasury, and thereby keeping the Province Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
  • With this patient, it is likely that profound family conflict is impeding the acknowledgment and acceptance of approaching death.
  • With cultural barriers impeding population mobility, Europe is unlikely to find this adjustment working smoothly.
  • 'Oh,' says the metaphysician, 'this is association: just so a strain of music reminds you of a fine passage in a book you have read, or a beautiful tone in a picture you have seen; just so the Ranz des Vaches bears the exile to the timber house, with shady leaves, corbelled and strut-supported, whose very weakness appeals to the avalanche that shakes an icicly beard in monition from the impeding crags.' The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
  • Impeding their progress are land mines studding the landscape and threatening every turn of the wheels.
  • However, sharp differences over how it should be restructured remain a major obstacle impeding the achievement of that goal any time soon.
  • She is impeding the progress of our project
  • The Minke whales, which are numerous, should be culled because they are impeding the recovery of the endangered Blue Whale.
  • Employment is scarce as it is, and its time for the unions to stop impeding the progress of this country.
  • But Striped Bass is a predator that may be impeding the recovery of listed species including steelhead trout, chinook salmon, delta smelt and splittail.
  • Surprisingly, the establishment of an introduced species, rather than impeding further invasions, appears to facilitate the settlement of other nonindigenous species. Aquatic invasive species
  • But Striped Bass is a predator that may be impeding the recovery of listed species including steelhead trout, chinook salmon, delta smelt and splittail.
  • Picking a path as they went on Jack and his companions pushed into the deep everglade, the lush undergrowth sometimes quite impeding their progress, and making their advance very slow. The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island
  • The IPA is “Small government libertarian think tank” who blame the whales for getting in the way of innocent japanese harpooners, aborigines for getting in the way of the legitimate colonial business of the King of England, forests for impeding access to all that lovely woodchip and Dr Bob Brown for global warming, if such a thing exists. Cheeseburger Gothic » None dare call it treason…
  • BROWN: Yeah, I find now in Hollywood, it seems like unless drugs is kind of impeding your career, we don ` t know about celebrities ` drug issues. CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2008
  • The committee says delays in acquiring a combat identification system were even impeding the effectiveness of weapons systems.
  • The Five Dissenting Brethren and the other “thraward wits” in the Assembly could still persevere in their struggle with the Presbyterian majority, debating every proposition that implied a surrender of Congregationalism, and conscious that in so impeding a Presbyterian settlement they were pleasing a growing body of their fellow-countrymen. The Life of John Milton

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