Sentence examples for as impediments from inspiring English sources
The United States views the requirements as impediments to trade.
If he has kids, they are invoked only as impediments to his sex life.
Boards don't choose insiders because they are perceived as impediments to organizational change, the author says.
Others in the White House treated the customary protocols as impediments.
He sees bureaucratic rivalries as well as sloth as impediments to the country's relief efforts.
But the Cynics, unlike Socrates, treated all conventional distinctions and cultural traditions as impediments to the life of virtue.
He knows form, style, knowledge and technique are essential to mastering an instrument, but sees them as impediments to true virtuosity.
When Addington joined the C.I.A., it was directed by William J. Casey, who also regarded congressional constraints on the agency as impediments to be circumvented.
He said he viewed it as a way to allow the concert series to outlast him, dismissing the objections as impediments to fun.
He characterized Mr. Gore and the current administration as impediments to progress on issues like Social Security and Medicare because, Mr. Bush suggested, they were too mired in stale thinking and too addicted to partisan warfare.
Middle-class respectability, the horrific ostracization visited upon divorcées and the war-time call of duty have all receded as impediments sufficient to thwart lovers of the ardor of Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.
