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    1. Britainic was to sail from Chelsea Docks on Wednesday the eleventh of April, therefore tickets for passage on the Overland train were arranged to insure their arrival in New York with time to spare should the unforeseen impede their journey


    2. Staying silent was the hardest trial of her life, but she knew it would only impede her progress


    3. I expect that once in power, however, the modus operandi will be consolidating power that may (ironically) impede the party‘s ability or willingness, for that matter, to legislate meaningful reforms


    4. In fact, it would impede the speed and maneu-verability of the bicycle


    5. They wish to impede all progress and return us to the “horse and buggy


    6. That fence would seriously impede having a totally open border and would interfere


    7. However, current society is tied with so many laws that impede any change, for this reason we idealized this intention with utilization of the Third Sector of the economy so that it participates of this grandiose event to harvest success and to accomplish its altruistic dreams with completeness, efficacy and global reaching


    8. There are forts systemic causes that impede its success as alternative force to the State


    9. “The boss who gave you your job got murdered, but instead of you helping to find out who did it, you’re doing what you can to impede the investigation


    10. They wish to impede all progress and return us to the ―horse and buggy days‘ for if they really were for clean, safe energy they would be promoting the use of nuclear energy

    11. In a split second, so quickly that Nemia could not impede her, all of her power concentrated in her right fist and she spun and struck over Nemia


    12. If he will not wait, we will not impede him


    13. This gave the Six the will to continue their deadly game of cat and mouse, knowing that every enemy that chased them was one less to impede the hunt for Zarkog


    14. On the other hand, they take no particular action to impede defectors of all types from fleeing into Thon


    15. He will probably force it on the rest by use of the Compulsion stones, and we will not impede him


    16. Marjie’s ex-husband began to impede visits with her youngest son and attempted to obtain child support from her, which caused her extreme anxiety and anger, Nuke said, “It is very difficult for me to observe the suffering of her earthly form when I can also see the form that Star One has here


    17. gangly animals with inconsistent coats, who chose to impede


    18. factor that might impede the success of the project


    19. would in no way impede the free movement of the other The


    20. The inductors pass DC easily but impede

    21. during the war and impede production as in


    22. They stayed away from the group and made no attempt to impede them


    23. WEAKNESSES: Internal aspects of your organization that will impede your ability to achieve your Outcomes and CSFs


    24. serves $5 million in guns and ammo (Viet Nam surplus) “to help impede the intervention of third countries (other than us, I have to assume)


    25. It is large enough to have some gravity, but small enough that its gravity will not impede our work on the ship


    26. They burned plantations and commissaries, tore up tracks to impede the passage of the trains that began to open their path with machine-gun fire, and they cut telegraph and telephone wires


    27. The latter may impede a single group, but with so many different organizations today working for the air, land, water and people of the planet, they will find it impossible to stop them all


    28. (Does he need a push, or do those that impede him need a push?, out the door


    29. Checking the odometer of the jeep, Ingrid was pleased to find that more than a mile of absolutely straight boulevard was free of any overhanging wires or poles that could impede the taking off of her fighters


    30. Somewhere deep within him, this was the very thing he coveted most as well, but the recent past seemed to impede on that dream, like a stone wall he had just started building completely around his heart

    31. And they in turn, because he does not impede them; yield to him, content:


    32. Low dark clouds were still hanging over Lae and pouring rain, cutting severely the visibility on the ground and making extremely risky any use of airstrikes, apart from continuing to impede the arrival of more reinforcements and supplies by air


    33. moments that can and will impede you


    34. Also, the digestive breakdown of another class of glucosinolates, known as indole glucosinolates, results in the release of thiocyanate ions, which also impede the thyroid from using iodine


    35. ‘’How do you dare pretend to dictate our conduct after all the tragedies that the Jewish people has gone through in the past years? I thought that the United States had sent you to protect us, not to impede us from securing our new state from Arab threats


    36. We have two of our best commanders in place there and I expect that no one here at the Pentagon will impose restrictions on them or will impede in any way their efforts


    37. create a legal framework that will assist, rather than impede, the awesome


    38. He figured that the railing would impede his fall


    39. The cold and ice impede us


    40. Why not! Because we will to care not with every act that does their bidding, and every inaction to impede it

    41. Zem added, “The only thing that could impede us, that is apart from


    42. Though that didn’t greatly impede the loving caresses much that Sue was


    43. The daylight would impede a restful slumber, but now, a person could sleep anytime, and for much greater periods


    44. The judge realized that the trial had been as Olin noted, a Circus Maximus, and that alone could at the least impede his path to the Supreme Court


    45. Then again their dominance was not to last if Vayu could impede it


    46. For example, some state governments have laws on the books that impede the portability of a patient’s healthcare information, making it illegal for example, to transmit certain patient information across state lines


    47. Designated areas where sacred cows wander around untouched, while kept out of other designated areas like freeways, because the sacred traditions of India are not supposed to impede the modern progress of automobiles


    48. By direct contrast, the Seven Spirits of Evil are physical and material impulses and urges that are life-negative, predatory qualities and behaviors that lead to struggle and death and impede life, hence the spirit of


    49. predatory qualities and behaviors that lead to struggle and death and impede life, hence the spirit of


    50. I couldn’t impede myself from moving nearer to him, he was bleeding, he was in pain, because of me












    1. The white headed Lascorii princess's over-developed 'fashion-sense' pervaded her every interaction---lethal as she and her sisters were, nothing impeded her looking the part of courtier to the Matriarch


    2. Opponents agreed; hardly anyone wanted the streets filled with rioting protesters, but peaceful demonstrations should not be impeded with brute force


    3. The hard clay of the hill had made revetments unnecessary, but the perpendicular trenches, backed by a second rampart before the fort, had impeded their retreat and caused the only serious loss from our fire


    4. Certain groups in recent generations, however, have been hampered, for political and social reasons, perhaps, by bureaucratic ―visionaries‖ whose (utopic) imaginations and impractical zeal for alternative (economic) reforms have repeatedly impeded economic progress, if not encouraged underachievement


    5. Observe then that there is much money, available material and human resources or in potentiality that are impeded of circulating for current system


    6. has impeded all serious attempts to investigate the Clinton-Gore


    7. busiest times of the day, and progress was impeded at every step


    8. Therefore it impeded his course work not to have his glasses


    9. He would not have risked harm to the innocent citizens on the island, so if the gods had insisted on leaving, Mark would not have impeded them by the inverted Wards


    10. ” Mark told his sword as he set it’s tip against the black surface, just as the Alliance wizards added a Shield of unimaginable power to the one he and Talia were holding between themselves and the wall, though neither impeded the huge black sword in the slightest

    11. Every time one side or the other impeded the negotiations, that side would find one of its military facilities destroyed by a swarm of robot missiles


    12. Many of the pilots developed personality disorders that impeded their ability to fly the ship properly


    13. impeded the speed of their progress, but their torches, along with Ruth’s


    14. We are in fact already in need of expanding our capacities to house, sustain and occupy a growing population, but had been impeded by the Terran Federation Council and its misguided priorities


    15. He was about to pull himself back up for a beautiful recovery, but something impeded his progress


    16. The upper garment was heavy and impeded his movement


    17. The same obstacles that impeded the Christian church and Darwin from coming to terms about defining out `creation and originìs still a major hurdle that is still kept under the carpet by society as well in present times


    18. Only a morbid frame composed over rigid statistics that are impeded from evolving out any more could locate a stationary place staged over here


    19. Nothing impeded a Govicide investigation


    20. Neither taller nor older impeded “Tony the Tiger’s” hot-blooded heart—he’d gone completely pazzo over the lady

    21. “Are you serious?” her arms went out in front of her trying to touch what had impeded her


    22. Phoenix, Los Angles, and smaller metropolises is not impeded by lack of water


    23. Rail traffic was impeded, as the rail


    24. She said that if I impeded this search warrant, I very well could be


    25. action of the playin its first form was impeded by the excessive lyricism of some of thescenes;


    26. Again, pure love is incapable of expression today, its flow being impeded by the form nature


    27. And it may have been a ringing in my ear, from this organ filling with impeded blood, but it seemed to me that Conseil's shout had received an answer


    28. Long bores were driven into the side walls; but after fifteen meters, the instruments were still impeded by the thickness of those walls


    29. Purpose is strength and hers was impeded tonight


    30. The Mohican maintained his firm and haughty attitude; and his eyes, so far from deigning to meet her inquisitive look, dwelt steadily on the distance, as though it penetrated the obstacles which impeded the view and looked into futurity

    31. Considered useless and a complete failure by her family, she was sent to the abbey at a young age, where Rowena manipulated and belittled her until she became afraid of her strengths and impeded by fear


    32. Your horses got as far as Ranelagh, when they darted forward like mad things, and galloped away at so fearful a rate, that there seemed no other prospect for myself and my poor Edward but that of being dashed to pieces against the first object that impeded their progress, when a strange-looking man,—an Arab, a negro, or a Nubian, at least a black of some nation or other—at a signal from the count, whose domestic he is, suddenly seized and stopped the infuriated animals, even at the risk of being trampled to death himself; and certainly he must have had a most wonderful escape


    33. Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 1 9 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity


    34. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility


    35. He struck out for the shore, but the cotton gown greatly impeded his efforts, and when at length he touched land he found it hard to climb up the steep bank unassisted


    36. Rosamond in her agitated absorption had not noticed the silently advancing figure; but when Dorothea, after the first immeasurable instant of this vision, moved confusedly backward and found herself impeded by some piece of furniture, Rosamond was suddenly aware of her presence, and with a spasmodic movement snatched away her hands and rose, looking at Dorothea who was necessarily arrested


    37. ’Twas late for this Measure, but had the Captain attended to the Problem of Ships’ Fevers ere this, ’twould have impeded his Punishment of Llewelyn—something which he could scarce tolerate


    38. In the gen’ral Melee that follow’d, the Weather impeded the Defense of the Cassandra more than it harm’d our own Offensive, for Pyrates are better skill’d with Cutlass and Dirk than Common Tars, and steadier on their Feet upon a pitching Deck


    39. Prue took this Opportunity to lumber out of her Hammock with captive Belinda and make as if to flee, but a Crowd of Onlookers, already laying Bets, impeded her Progress; and she was trapp’d betwixt the Mob and the Ladder which led to the Deck


    40. Napoleon, too, carried away his own personal tresor, but on seeing the baggage trains that impeded the army, he was (Thiers says) horror-struck

    41. The answer came in a sobbing torrent of words, rather impeded by the static of three hundred miles


    42. While the bolt of his iron collar was being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles


    43. however much its weight impeded my progress, I must retain it


    44. To be able to do this, they have long ago worked out such provisions for temperance, that drunkenness is not impaired; such provisions for education, that ignorance is not only not interfered with, but is even strengthened; such provisions for liberty and for the constitution, that despotism is not impeded; such provisions for the labourers, that they are not freed from slavery; such Christianity as does not destroy, but maintains the governments


    45. Jilin followed him limping, for the shackles impeded his walking


    46. Napoleon, too, carried away his own personal trésor, but on seeing the baggage trains that impeded the army, he was (Thiers says) horror-struck


    47. Its effects as a coercive measure would, I believe, have been equally certain, if the misconduct of some of our own people, and the revolution in Spain, had not impeded its action


    48. When the cave was first discovered, the passage into it was impeded by stalactites, which had formed perpendicular columns across it; but these are now removed


    49. The course of that opposition, by which the administration of the Government had been unremittingly impeded for the last twelve years, was singular, and, I believe, unexampled in the history of any country


    1. weighted net impedes its wings, and the ropes tied to the trees prevent


    2. The state-owned grandiose and expensive infrastructures of the countries, international aid organizations and the organizations of the Third Sector of the civil society (non-profit) seek to solve serious social problems that last long per millenniums, however they don’t obtain the definitive solution to the human beings’ basic necessities that become excluded in its majority for imposition of the perverse existent socioeconomic model in the world that privileges minorities and it impedes that all the citizens live with dignity and well-being in any country


    3. This existent model impedes that the well-intentioned purposes are concretized, mainly in relation to the obtaining of resources and generation of income


    4. It impedes that the humanity lives with happiness and enjoy the material and technological well-being in that persons can gain, without anybody loses


    5. See some signalling examples: legislation change that impedes the continuity of the Project in the country; political retrocession; economic crisis, dictatorship, low reliability level and high popular dissatisfaction


    6. With this, it avoids that somebody receives or make draft in money, it annuls the emission of checks or it impedes any legal right of drafts and it avoids patrimonial appropriation in judicial demand, including the governments, sponsors, introducers, authors and Teams of Coordination of the XUSING Project


    7. impedes movement The outer core of the physical earth is molten and very


    8. But it neither reflects nor impedes the prevalent use of these categories to classify people; almost all therapists refer, for example, to schizophrenics, hysterics, and borderlines as if the person becomes the disorder


    9. Your incredible language skills were also a big factor in our interest in you, since they will mostly negate the need to have some local translator follow you, something that often impedes reporting in the field


    10. ing wakefulness creates in the central nervous system a high level of internal noise that impedes the flow of processes of integration and association

    11. An old nemesis impedes his life fire, causing him to battle himself


    12. Miscommunication and disinformation impedes flow, hinders connections 87


    13. nothing short of death impedes that march


    14. The hardness of that attitude impedes the fruit of the spirit from developing from within


    15. Money severely impedes the quality of life, society, and civilization by


    16. considered as leading to immorality--yet, as the odium of society impedes


    17. ” While this privacy law was originally created to help limit the discrimination associated with addiction care by restricting access to treatment records and patient health information, in the electronic age, 42 CFR Part 2 impedes the ability of providers to coordinate patient care


    18. that severely impedes successful treatment of drug addiction


    19. In a word, we must found a form of government holding universal sway, which should be diffused over the whole world without destroying the bonds of citizenship, and beside which all other governments can continue in impedes the great aim of our order, which is to obtain for virtue the victory over vice


    20. Such is the process by means of which Christianity, in spite of the violence which is exercised by the power of the state and which impedes the forward movement of humanity, takes possession of men more and more

    21. But violence not only demoralizes public opinion, it excites in the minds of men a pernicious conviction that they move onward, not through the impulsion of a spiritual power, which would help them to comprehend and realize the truth by bringing them nearer to that moral force which is the source of every progressive movement of mankind,—but, by means of violence,—by the very factor that not only impedes our progress toward truth, but withdraws us from it


    22. In a word, we must found a form of government holding universal sway, which should be diffused over the whole world without destroying the bonds of citizenship, and beside which all other governments can continue in their customary course and do everything except what impedes the great aim of our order, which is to obtain for virtue the victory over vice


    1. Many of the angels could sense the impeding blue blood bath: Maybe this would be a blood bath blood drive?


    2. impeding the advancement of its Universal Principles


    3. Yazadril’s nation is surrounded by Finitra, and Alilia is closely allied with him, so they were cursed in the hope that the deaths of their children and their ensuing strife would weaken them and prevent their impeding the coup


    4. The point is, kid, you’re impeding the war effort


    5. He contemplated me patiently as if it knew the doubts that were impeding my heart


    6. Matthew on the other hand was a very impatient driver and would often blow the horn at other drivers he considered were impeding him


    7. The girls watched as the dark form slipped under the low limbs of the sycamores and vanished into the impeding darkness


    8. often interprets them based on their effects in aiding or impeding search for union


    9. The impeding bulk of metal halted her discovery from coming to fruition


    10. That man fell backward, impeding the next man from pointing his own submachine gun

    11. I ought to run you in for impeding an official investigation


    12. 'Well, well,' she said, when I, tired of talking, got up and removed the impeding table with something of the brisk politeness of a dentist unhooking the patient's bib and screwing down his chair after he has done his worst, 'you seem to be a good sort of girl


    13. The winds blew long and hard, impeding my progress as I trudged, struggling along the plateau


    14. Will pass the obstacles and difficulties impeding whatever


    15. The rest of his followers endured, impeding the flurry of trepidation flagging them


    16. This was the remora, which travels attached to the bellies of sharks; as the ancients tell it, when these little fish cling to the undersides of a ship, they can bring it to a halt, and by so impeding Mark Antony's vessel during the Battle of Actium, one of them facilitated the victory of Augustus Caesar


    17. Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects


    18. 'I'm sorry if I am impeding the traffic, officer,' said Sebastian with care, 'but the lady insisted on my stopping for her to get out


    19. Again Pierre did not wish to look and again turned away; but again the sound as of a frightful explosion struck his ear, and at the same moment he saw smoke, blood, and the pale, scared faces of the Frenchmen who were again doing something by the post, their trembling hands impeding one another


    20. The wars of the great king, so far from impeding the advance of arts and sciences, seemed rather to promote and to favor their progress

    21. the course of the opposition in impeding the Government for the last twelve years has been unexampled in history, 654;


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    Synonyms for "impede"

    block close up impede jam obstruct obturate occlude hinder arrest prevent stop check deter

    "impede" definitions

    be a hindrance or obstacle to


    block passage through