But, as Chicago proves all too well, innovation in public services can easily be stymied by old-fashioned bickering.There is hope that Illinois's legislators will be more productive in 2008 than they were last year, but this is not saying much.
Cholera is preventable and easily treated, but containment has been stymied by the chronic deficiency — or utter absence — of clean water and sanitation systems in Haiti, particularly in the countryside, where cholera hit first and hardest.
The trouble is that although things like bad weather and air-traffic-control problems are easy excuses for the airlines' failures, they're also real problems, and any airline dedicated to keeping its on-time arrivals high could easily find its efforts, in the short run, stymied by storms or by high volume.
The analysts are stymied, however, by computer systems that cannot easily search automatically — and repeatedly — for possible links, officials said.
In the meantime, these recollections of a stymied, melancholy Afrikaner in London are more entertaining than is easily explained.
"You can easily argue that it stymies experimentation, that it prevents innovation, because the audience is telling you what they want".
A willful and malevolent figure, Ialdabaoth is unaware of any power above him and is easily duped by providence into actions that either serve divine ends or are stymied by countermeasures from the divine realm.
Individual researchers and groups can relatively easily, although not inexpensively, produce and submit new transcriptomics data, but are often stymied trying to incorporate their contributions into the established, preexisting knowledge.
One could go even further (as Crummell easily could) and argue that if cognitive resources are diminished due to morally pernicious causes, then moral progress will be stymied unless and until a just accounting of those causes has been made, and remedies are carried out.
THE Beatles were stymied.
