Sentence examples for an effort to hamper from inspiring English sources

Opposing teams often assign a player to follow him around the ice, in an effort to hamper him and diminish his effect on the game.

Schools in the country are closed for a third consecutive week and all public-facing workers have been ordered to wear surgical masks in an effort to hamper transmission of the highly contagious illness.

On August 12, 2011, BART shut down cellphone services on the network for three hours in an effort to hamper possible protests against the shooting and to keep communications away from protesters at the Civic Center station in San Francisco.

In an attempt to hamper Iran's efforts to develop a nuclear bomb America announced further sanctions in December.

They said Mr. Ghailani's detention was not an effort to try to hamper his defense or gain some tactical advantage in his case, as the defense has claimed.

— Mitt Romney's top aides plan to move quickly after the primaries on Tuesday to integrate the campaign's growing staff with the Republican National Committee, in an effort to avoid logistical stumbles that have hampered past nominees, campaign aides and committee officials said Friday.

He did not take part in the G20 protests, and was walking across London's financial district in an effort to reach the Lindsey Hotel, his way hampered at several points by police lines set up to keep streets clear of protesters.

A shortage of tow trucks continued to hamper the effort, the mayor said.

But persistent stigma and political challenges continue to hamper efforts to end the epidemic.

He apologised to his supporters and to Ed Miliband for failing to retake the mayoralty; an effort hampered by an "incredible media battering", not to mention a tide of "negativity and smears".

Palm, then, is the Oedipus of a modern tragedy, their efforts to rebuild hampered by a failure to see past their own greatness and a refusal to enter the market on the market's terms.