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.
The opposition from the Republican side of the aisle is not, in the end, enough to impede Leahy from going forward with his idea.
He added, "As long as this dispute exists, we are impeded from being able to go ahead and make these available to other companies".
He would undoubtedly be a divisive figure, impeded from the start by preconceived ideas about his agenda.
"But while the fighting mostly doesn't stop humanitarian aid being delivered to affected areas, the tragic thing is that it does impede the civilian population from going the last mile and being able to reach that assistance," he added.
The personal issues that impeded the writers and artists from going away were quite astounding.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said of the strike action: "All it succeeds in doing is alienating Londoners, stopping people from going about their jobs, impeding our great city from leading the country out of recession".
He has denied aid organizations' repeated reports that their workers are being intimidated and impeded from reaching Darfur.
But the performance of each group suffers when it is impeded from engaging in its preferred strategies.
The jetties and groins also impeded the "littoral drift"—the giant floating beach that waves push up and down the coast blocking sand from going to neighboring towns (these structures are sometimes called "spite groins").
