Sentence examples for impediments blocks from inspiring English sources

Even successful blacks still feel they must work harder than whites to get ahead, and a host of invisible but potent institutionalized impediments blocks the path of the less fortunate.

He is seen by advocates of gambling expansion as a cantankerous impediment blocking their ravenous army during our revenue-desperate days.

Legal or social impediments can block its development.

Plus, white space tech offers better coverage than cellular since it isn't as hampered by radio blocking impediments like concrete walls.

I don't know any other foundation working globally that is willing to deal with political obstacles like any other impediments when they are blocking sensible and principled solutions.

"We have an opportunity in my state to do something to end the obstruction, to end the blocks, to end the delays and the impediments and to really keep this country moving forward," he told the Austin breakfast crowd.

The decree issued on Saturday removed legal impediments that had continued to block the return of the properties even after amendments were enacted in recent years to allow it.

One reason is a lack of reciprocity: although China complains about nationalist impediments of the sort that blocked the Unocal transaction, it tolerates little involvement by non-Chinese companies in its own energy industry.So several recent Chinese investments have taken more roundabout forms.

Knoblauch's problem takes the same form as many excruciating impediments in purely mental enterprises with writer's block as the most obvious example, when obsession with learned rules of style and grammar impedes the flow of good prose.

Apart from the impediments of age or physical disability, the essentially psychological blocks that constitute being, in the loose and commonplace sense, "tone deaf" can be coaxed away.

Structural impediments such as poverty are one thing, but low confidence and thwarted aspiration are also serious stumbling blocks to social mobility and personal success, he says.