When schools are closed because of earthquake damage, education is hampered, community life disrupted, and emergency shelters unavailable.
This lack of distinction between proximal and distal actions, we submit, may implicitly hamper our community's conversation about learning processes and design principles.
The first attempt was hampered by community leaders selecting themselves, which led to inconsistent attendance, gender imbalance, and political infighting.
In addition to hampering communication, bigness can endanger an institution's vitality by damaging community morale, support for young faculty, and maintenance of uniformly high research standards.
Cold weather and long winters hamper farming, limiting communities to small, mostly indigenous, hunting and gathering groups that rarely top a few hundred families.
Nigeria is the second most endemic country in the world for lymphatic filariasis, with control efforts often hampered by poor community awareness and involvement in intervention strategies.
Jack Dorsey later apologized for Twitter thrashing developers this way, but after pulling the rug out from under them, the lack of trust in the community hampered Fabric's success.
On Dominica, Omar's close pass to the island left 30 families homeless and severely hampered the fishing community.
In addition, the low incidence of RTI caused by HAdV in the community hampered the effort to get enough representative isolates.
Governor Blagojevich, a former prosecutor, said his concerns about "hampering the law enforcement community" by requiring the police to tape interrogations had been overridden by the notion that tapes will provide "clearer, more reliable" evidence for the state's justice system.
At a press conference on Tuesday, the president said that Guantánamo is unnecessary to keep America safe; it is expensive and inefficient; it diminishes the standing of the United States in the international community; it hampers cooperation with allies on counterterrorism efforts; and it serves as a recruitment tool for extremists.
