The phrase "impede the operation" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used in a broader context to indicate that something or someone has prevented something from functioning as it should. For example: The broken machinery has severely impeded the operation of the factory.
Even, I suspect, if they were held for minutes it would still impede the operation of the port," he replied, saying the port had "Ryanair style turnaround times" for roll-on, roll-off traffic.
Physically the shop layout may facilitate or impede the operation of tagging systems.
Mr. Chairman, this clause does not give Congress power to impede the operation of any part of the Constitution, or to make any regulation that may affect the interests of the citizens of the Union at large.
Far from encouraging Congress to tighten the noose on health care markets, Gawande should have urged a removal of many of the senseless barriers to entry that systematically impede the operation of health care markets.
Its government believes that "material factors in the decline of the industry are the increased standards of regulation in Antigua and an increasingly aggressive strategy on the part of the United States to impede the operation of cross-border gaming activities".
Witness U.S. attempts to impede the operation of the centrifuges in Iran and its acknowledged attacks on the computers of ISIS.
The militia has achieved what thousands of Mexican soldiers and federal police stationed in Michoacan have failed to do: impede the operations of this powerful cartel on a large scale.
In The Road to Serfdom (1944), Hayek argued that government action often did more harm than good: in economic terms, by impeding the operation of market forces, and in political terms, by reducing the freedom that individuals and companies should enjoy to earn, spend, and generally act as they chose.
Increasing the operating temperature without TE addition had no impact on methane yield and resulted in a large amount of VFA accumulation, in particular propionate, which impeded the operation of D42 (Table 2).
Acting in the name of Anonymous, a handful of activists targeted those companies with simple "denial of service" attacks, ones that impeded the operations of those corporate websites for a few hours.
They were too big to fit below deck and remained on the flight deck, where they impeded the operations of Eagles aircraft, except for those few also carried on the flight deck, until the ferried aircraft were flown off.
