Sentence examples for ability to impede from inspiring English sources

They would like to defrost things a little by reducing the minority's ability to impede legislation.

One of the few remaining moderate Republicans in the United States Senate defected to the Democrats today, dealing a massive blow to the Republican party's ability to impede Barack Obama's legislative agenda, and opening the way for dramatic action on climate change, healthcare reform and other issues.

The ability to impede or redirect lava largely depends on location, resources and luck.

Thus, a corrosion-resistant bonding layer and its ability to impede extension of cracking under cyclic dynamic loads can have a positive influence on the coating performance when the substrate has inferior anti-corrosion properties.

Recently, several targeted therapies directed towards MEK, ERK, PI3K and mTOR have been assayed in pancreatic cancer cell lines and in mouse models of the disease with promising results for their ability to impede cellular growth or delay tumor formation, and several inhibitors are currently in clinical trials.

The antifungal activity of these immunosuppressives, coupled with their ability to impede azole resistance, create (at least in vitro) a synergistic effect when used with clinically relevant antifungal agents [33], [34].

So as not to impede their ability to do their jobs, law enforcement officers are also protected against liability, under a legal doctrine called qualified immunity.

Because, he wrote, if you spend so many hours at something you loathe, "it is going to impede your ability to do your best work".

At the very least, we should expect corporate codes of conduct not to impede the ability of decent people to do good in the world.

It appeared as if learning the first prior somehow acted to impede subjects' ability to adapt to the second prior.

A lack of medical equipment and drugs was considered to impede CHWs' ability to perform EOCs.