Sentence examples for impediment over from inspiring English sources

Built out of necessity, they often serve as protection, but the same boundary can become an impediment over time.

Despite the huge margin by which President Clinton won today -- 83 to 15, his biggest legislative victory in the foreign policy arena since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 -- the reversal of policy toward China cemented into law today was hardly assured, given all the impediments over the years.

Yet all it takes is a majority vote in both houses of Congress and the signature of the President to abolish the last impediments to creativity left over from the medieval period: patents and copyrights.

But Europe also has too many impediments to growth: over-restrictive labour laws, too much bureaucracy, too many protectionist tendencies that prevent the full implementation of the single market.

Neither he nor Bevan got over their impediment.

Instead, the dam will be lowered several feet and a rock ramp built to help shad, sculpins and other fish get over the impediment.

The appeals had been the most significant impediment to a compromise over an evaluation system for New York City teachers, but there is another hurdle: the fate of 33 struggling schools the city wants to close and reopen under an arrangement that would allow it to dismiss half of their teachers.

Mr. Rogers he will never be, but Coughlin has proved that he is capable of change and that his personality — still prickly at the drop of a pass — does not have to be an alienating impediment for his players over the course of a season.

Would you force a friend to hide a prosthetic limb or criticize them over their speech impediment?

"Gift Tax is an impediment if you are handing money over to your wife.

"Contrary to Cooper's complaint, we have been working diligently to address significant post-announcement impediments," Apollo said over the weekend.