Sentence examples for historical impediments from inspiring English sources

Predominant among this feat's historical impediments was the fact that few men, if any, had ever considered it.

This paper demonstrates in quantitative terms the value of long-term investments to overcome the historical impediments to infrastructure rehabilitation, including the need for a proactive political structure that compensates for the apparent lack of public accountability, and for the poor understanding of the socio-economic effects caused by transportation infrastructure failures.

One of the key historical impediments to gaining sufficient resources for coastal restoration has been a general uncertainty over how to apportion the blame for decades worth of problems.

"The biggest impediment is historical.

A summary of these impediments are provided below; Historical investment in IT and automation Over the last 40 years many facilities invested in IT systems and automation networks.

Hence, as Johnson points out, "in the story of professionalization as an historical process, state intervention is often viewed as a major impediment, explaining why certain occupations fail to attain the full flowering of professionalism" (1995, 11).

Some tributaries retain their historical habitat characteristics, but access by salmon is blocked by impassable culverts and other impediments (Beechie et al. 2001).

Clever behavioral touches (such as Cole's speech impediment) can't mask the absence of ambiguity, psychological depth, and historical resonance, but a whiff of political irony near the end suggests unexplored byways, and the character of Allison French (Renée Zellweger), a widow who comes to town and works her wiles, adorns the period landscape with modern mores.

In 2009 Ronald George, at the time California's chief justice, worried publicly about the effect on liberty: "Has the voter initiative now become the tool of the very types of special interests it was intended to control, and an impediment to the effective functioning of a true democratic process?"As though to provide a historical bookend, even the Southern Pacific Railroad got into the game.

But many impediments remain.

Common law impediments remained.