A meeting could be broken up by a police constable if he apprehended that a breach of the peace was likely, if it impeded other citizens or if a policeman considered that a person of "reasonable firmness and courage" might be alarmed (to name but three instances).
At a NATO conference in Europe with President Bush, Secretary Powell again warned last week that if the declaration of sites was "patently false" and if Iraq impeded inspectors, the president was "fully ready" to use military force.
I don't think that Lean was impersonal; he went as far as he could, and if something impeded him from going further — his country, his lost faith, or the fact that, as Alec Guinness said, "David has no sense of humor" — then the story of his restraint is also a personal one.
"It's impossible to predict the roots of an act of violence," said Gessen, as the panelists questioned the value of a "theatre of protection" if they impeded personal liberties and spoke of an "economy of terror", in which informants and terror suspects with "no other recourse to wealth" sought to transcend their financial destinies.
Bishops are judged "impeded" if they can no longer communicate, either orally or in writing.
Roberts, in his decision, mentioned an amicus brief filed by a number of former White House counsels, who suggested that the business of politics as we know it would be impeded if the McDonnell decision were upheld.
And the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade, now official Japan's leading advocate of far-reaching corporate restructuring, worries that progress will be impeded if a government-run fund owns 2to3percentent of all stocks.
The union has sent a clear message to Turkey that its chances of starting full accession talks with Brussels will be seriously impeded if it fails to push the Turkish Cypriots to a deal.
UK efforts to bring terrorists, including jihadis, to justice in this country will be seriously impeded if David Cameron bows to pressure from Eurosceptics and opts out of European Union police and justice co-operation, senior MPs warned last night.
Further bilateral disarmament will also be impeded if Russia feels that the NATO alliance seeks to encircle it by expanding its military cooperation through membership or otherwise with more states neighboring Russia.
