pediment

How To Use pediment 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
• All the houses will have a traditional look with curved timber framed windows, decorative roof detail and over-door pediments.
• In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego.
• The twelve-panel front door is surmounted with a transom window and framed by fluted pilasters supporting an open pediment.
• 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?
• The distinctive open fretwork pediment of the mahogany case is associated with clocks made in or near Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the Federal period.
• 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.