Sentence examples for impediment to development and from inspiring English sources

Slavery is an impediment to development, and this is certainly the case in Edo, where trafficking has robbed communities of young people who could contribute most to local development.

Because of the small spatial scale of a major chimera-generating mechanism (predominantly intramolecular and <10 kbp), such chimeric molecules are a severe impediment to development and application of larger insert (3 10 kbp) libraries.

"The digital divide is one of the greatest impediments to development, and it is growing exponentially," the World Bank's president, James D. Wolfensohn, said in a statement.

Each year in Ethiopia, there are 1.5 million cases of malaria, a major cause of suffering and an impediment to development.

However, due to the fact that all the arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) induce a strong non-specific cell binding, they lack cell specificity and this remains the major impediment to development.

Although a lack of infrastructure is often viewed as an impediment to development, what we are finding is that, because many developing nations are not saddled with an aging electrical grid, they can potentially "leapfrog" into a Third Industrial Revolution.

Such a reality is a serious impediment to development in our countries; it represents a serious threat to social peace and is morally outrageous.

This energy deficit is also an impediment to development.

The major impediment to development is the lack of potable water.

"So in my mind, the distance from Manhattan isn't the impediment to development".

Lack of access to finance is an important impediment to development in low-income countries.