The phrase "as impede" is not correct and usable in written English.
It seems to be a fragment and lacks proper context or structure to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The new regulations may as impede progress in the project."
Alternatives: "as hinder" or "as obstruct".
But as any resident or urban economist will tell you, the police -- especially Hartford's chronically understaffed and underfinanced police -- cannot stop as much as impede the drug-related crime that now appears to be on the upswing, contributing to a 27.5percentt increase in North End burglaries and four homicides so far this year.
As a consequence, a high-fat diet could accelerate the effect of aging on muscle mass and function, as well as impede recovery from injuries.
For children, residing in a food-insecure household can prevent them from achieving the nutrient intake needed for optimal development and health, as well as impede their academic performance [ 19- 26].
Furthermore, the airways are highly populated by dendritic cells (DCs) that clear microorganisms through phagocytosis, and there are large quantities of the immunoglobin IgA that function to bind toxin and viral particles as well as impede bacterial invasion of epithelial cells (Nicod, 2005).
Although AFOs improve ankle kinematics and temporal-spatial parameters during gait [ 11, 12], for high functioning children, the external support of an AFO may hinder balance strategies for secondary repertoire expansion as well as impede power generation for effective push off during walking and running [ 11– 13].
Instead it wants the obstacles it sees as impeding its aspirations swept away.
It also includes virtually obsolete crimes such as "impeding escape from a shipwreck".
Successive American administrations have resisted Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Gaza as impeding peace.
Commanders saw mental health providers as taking their soldiers "out of the fight," while mental health providers saw commanders as impeding their patients' recoveries.
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In the film, a Machiavellian news anchor played by Nicole Kidman manipulates three teenagers into murdering her unambitious husband, whom she sees as impeding her trajectory to stardom.
