The phrase "are being impeded" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where progress or movement is being obstructed or hindered in a passive voice context.
Example: "The efforts to improve the infrastructure are being impeded by a lack of funding."
Alternatives: "are being obstructed" or "are being hindered."
In public statements, though, energy industry executives have said drilling and production are being impeded by a shortage of processing plants and pipelines.
Progressive Arab states, like Jordan, Morocco and Bahrain, which want to build their legitimacy not on how they confront Israel but on how well they prepare their people for the future, are being impeded.
Conversations and side events around this issue raised the alarm about a number of countries where the rights to assemble and organise, and the abilities of western NGOs to work, and local NGOs to receive foreign funding, are being impeded by a variety of types of government legislation.
The Nomole team had discouraged the Mashco from dealing with anyone but them, missionaries included, which Rey described as a moral affront: "Those people have rights, and the right to communication, too, but they are being impeded from exercising that right".
If any agents feel their investigations are being impeded by any kind of official action, they will [be able to] make complaints to both Congress and the inspector general.
Even then there was a sense of injustice from the Brighton players who said Dunk was being impeded by Gary Hooper.
But only a change in popular culture can seriously affect attitudes, and, at the moment, that change is being impeded by an improbable enemy — the Motion Picture Association of America.
It had been due to take off at 0800 hours – an hour after the police alleged the emergency flight was being impeded.
But the effort to address the threat is being impeded by the body that should be leading the response: the United Nations.
A promise of agrarian reform is being impeded by problems figuring out who owns what land; the official registry says people have title to one-fourth more land than there is national territory.
Dr. Melton said that he did not know for sure whether research was being impeded by the present constraints, but that he had to develop his own lines, a choice not open to researchers without private money.
