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George Collier, another doctor, affirmed that graveyard miasma would "depress, impair and enervate the human frame", and was a predisposing cause of fever of the "low typhoid kind".
Weak banks weaken sovereigns that are called upon to bail them out; weak sovereigns impair banks that hold their bonds.
In this case, though, Olivier Blanchard's remark, that monetary ease could be paired with tighter regulation, is spot on; after all, the policy doesn't work by boosting investment but by redistributing claims via inflation.Another concern might be that the same political forces that restrain fiscal policy might also successfully impair monetary policy.
Previous research has suggested that graduating from an MBA programme during a recession can permanently impair one's earnings; perhaps a new line of inquiry should investigate whether it affects one's inclination towards bold moves as well.
Dr Czeisler forcefully argues that going without sleep can impair judgment: four hours of sleep for four or five days in a row, or staying awake for 24 hours straight, creates a state akin to drunkenness.
It joins other multinationals, including Procter & Gamble and Pfizer, in warning that a strong greenback could impair future income.
Forcing them to disclose information would impair their incentive to uncover and correct market inefficiencies, to the detriment of all.
Fruit bats, often eaten by people living in West Africa, are thought to be a host for the virus, which starts with flu-like symptoms but can impair kidney and liver function, and in severe cases damages blood cells, leading to external and internal bleeding.The current outbreak started in south-eastern Guinea in February and spread to Liberia in March and Sierra Leone in May.
Commerzbank has already separated investment banking from commercial banking, it says, so ring-fencing would be mainly cosmetic.Such extra costs to banks are unlikely greatly to impair big German companies' access to finance or investment-banking services.
The medical truth is that, though the effects of alcohol will vary from person to person, any level is bound to impair a driver's judgment.
Even using a "hands-free" device can impair a driver's attention to an alarming extent.Melina Kunar of the University of Warwick, in England, and Todd Horowitz of the Harvard Medical School ran a series of experiments in which two groups of volunteers had to pay attention and respond to a series of moving tasks on a computer screen that were reckoned equivalent in difficulty to driving.
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The primary grammatical function of "impair" is as a transitive verb , meaning it requires a direct object. As Ludwig AI confirms, it signifies weakening or damaging something. Examples from Ludwig illustrate its use in describing the negative impact on various entities, such as judgment, earnings, and growth.
Expression frequency: Very common
