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impeded
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
