Sentence examples for hampered the work from inspiring English sources
The situation hampered the work of voluntary organisations, delying projects and making it difficult to make longer-term plans.
But it badly hampered the work of family-planning groups overseas, forcing clinic closures, reduced services and fee increases.
But their efforts inadvertently hampered the work of the professionals, foreign rescue crews using sniffer dogs, and at least one team gave up and moved on to a less crowded location.
Traditionally served as 8 to 10 thin layers of yellow cake separated by chocolate fudge icing, the confection is seen by some as having potential to spark economic rejuvenation on the small island, where state restrictions on crabbing and oyster harvesting have hampered the work of watermen.
Utility crews restored power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in northwest Connecticut yesterday, but high winds and the lingering effects of a devastating weekend ice storm hampered the work, closed schools, littered roads with branches and left 62,000 customers without electricity for a second day.
This hampered the work of the beach's 25-boat fishing fleet, with concerns raised over the possible loss of life.
Unocha's interim humanitarian coordinator in CAR, Michel Yao, warns that the increasing insecurity is hampering the work of humanitarian groups.
In the mid-1990s, the Republican-controlled Congress imposed sweeping and unwarranted restrictions that continue to hamper the work of local legal services offices.
She went out every day for a month, in a rigid inflatable boat (RIB), to hamper the work of vast Japanese whaling vessels.
An MP who is launching an inquiry into excessive and possibly unlawful court secrecy says a new type of gagging order is hampering the work of investigative journalists.
The European Commission is investigating the legality of the government's apparent attempts to hamper the work of the constitutional tribunal – the highest court in the land – and a move to sack public broadcasting chiefs.
