Peace followed, but Nantucket's recovery was impeded by a failure to exploit new whaling grounds.
** In other passages, the story feels impeded by a joyless exactitude.
Privatisation and other economic reforms are impeded by a secretive, Soviet-style bureaucracy.
But its defence has been impeded by a lack of hard data.
In other passages, the story feels impeded by a joyless exactitude.
Wong captured the picture from somewhere outside the Oval Office, his view impeded by a huddle of violet flowers.
Hanson says growth in Noongar language learning has been impeded by a lack of formal language texts, including a dictionary.
Early navigation above Natchitoches, Louisiana, was impeded by a 160-mile (260-km) log jam known as the Great Raft.
The recovery of heavy crude oils is impeded by a viscous resistance to flow at reservoir temperatures.
Each of these agencies recouped, remarkably, over the next 48 hours, but only after unflagging efforts that were, fortunately, not impeded by a second terrorist attack.
For someone whose speech was impeded by a hole in his throat — he lost his vocal cords to cancer twenty years ago — Barger articulated quite well.
