Sentence examples for impediment to us from inspiring English sources

Aristotle [384 322 B.C.E.], for example, himself a student of Plato's, says at one point that all are agreed that pain is bad and to be avoided, either because it is bad "without qualification" or because it is in some way an "impediment" to us; he adds that pleasure, being the "contrary" of that which is to be avoided, is therefore necessarily a good (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1153b).

The 2012 report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) focused on the poor retention of undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) as an impediment to meeting US economic demands (PCAST, 2012).

Not only has it failed to achieve the effects that it intended, but it has also become an impediment to defending wider US interests in Latin America.

Now it is increasingly seen as a possible impediment to the exercise of "US strategic interests".

"We believe this will be a very significant impediment to others trying to compete with us," says Lys, adding that even the big three may have to pay up.

"We believe that this will be a very significant impediment to others trying to compete with us," says Lys, adding that even the big three may have to pay up.

Bad health can be an impediment to this process, as it forces us to remain focused on the suffering, rather than on the light within.

"The venture capitalists and the high-tech boys viewed us as the only impediment to their greedy desires".

And second, his writing reminds us that exclusivity is perhaps the greatest impediment to interfaith cooperation.

"UK politics has a tendency to be short term and see the natural environment as an impediment to economic growth, and EU agreements help mitigate this by encouraging us to be more long term in our public policy".

"More than just being a barrier which [a wall] can usefully be, it is a message to a government south of us that does not recognize that border as a legitimate impediment to free passage," Lundgren told me.