Poncelet's followers realized that they were hampering themselves, and disguising the true fundamentality of projective geometry, by retaining the concept of length and congruence in their formulations, since projections do not usually preserve them.
And while a couple points in any race isn't a given, Republicans seemed to hamper themselves through a number of bizarre campaign decisions.
Many other businesses found themselves hampered by the absence of workers, and some made unusual arrangements to keep functioning.
In an interview earlier Saturday, Mr. Astarloa, the secretary of state for security in the Interior Ministry, said investigators were finding themselves hampered by fingerprints so muddled that they might be useless and other contradictory evidence.
These events laid bare a key weakness that continues to haunt peacekeeping operations but that cannot be blamed on the peacekeepers themselves: hampered by inadequate resources and diffuse lines of command and control, their capacity to deploy troops and secure equipment depends on the steadfastness of individual countries in supporting them.
Search and rescue operations are being conducted, with rescuers finding themselves hampered by damaged roads.
By comparison, international banks operating in India offer excellent, up-to-date service, but they find themselves hampered by regulatory constraints on expansion.
Those conducting larger-scale PCR analysis will often find themselves hampered by researchers' webpages that provide incomplete, poorly-formatted, or all-together missing publication lists.
This meant that they could not express themselves well, which hampered their ability to participate in the medical decision-making.
The first attempt was hampered by community leaders selecting themselves, which led to inconsistent attendance, gender imbalance, and political infighting.
