Sentence examples for impediment to commerce from inspiring English sources
If the money has to be spent, may as well build one now to prevent the hole becoming a danger to life and limb, and an impediment to commerce.
Flood Rock, as the nine-acre cone-shaped protrusion was known, had since Colonial times been an impediment to commerce and a menace to river pilots, and work on removing it began in 1875.
It is of the essence of the British commercial spirit to push our manufactures into every land where they can be disposed of to advantage; and we have never heard of any impediment to commerce founded upon such a fact as that the moral state of the country with which our interchange of commodities took place was not such as we could conscientiously approve of.
In the years following, this rate was seen as too high and an impediment to commerce.
The anti-torture law Feinstein and McCain passed is one impediment to CIA torture.
Only recently have filibusters become a daily impediment to Senate operations, and they would not be that difficult to curb.
Michael S. Rocha, Oracle's senior vice president for platform technologies, said the biggest impediment to Oracle's growth had been the complexity of installing and managing the database servers.
Another potential impediment to IUD use is cost, which can exceed $1,000 for the hormonal IUD and about $300 for the copper IUD.
The treatment of journalists under the new regime emerged as an impediment to Labor's support, as the government sought to have the new laws passed before parliament rose next week.
The film studio has long been considered an impediment to NBC's acquisition because of the volatility of the movie business and G.E.'s historic reluctance to take on any expensive acquisition that could not be guaranteed to be either first or second in its competitive fields.
In addition, opportunity costs related to transportation and lost summer wages were an impediment to YIP for many students from underrepresented (URM) and low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds.
