On President's Day last February, after a "Piers Morgan Tonight" segment on presidential descendants that included Michael Reagan, Margaret Hoover and me, the headlines the next day were about parallels between Taft and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie: "If you need a proof point of the fact that being a large individual is no impediment to serving in high office, [Taft] is that proof point".
We also examined whether an improvement in mobility was related to hospitalization for UTI in those individuals with considerable impediments to mobility, such as those in wheelchairs or bedfast.
In "Treme," Simon seems to be arguing for the very opposite idea: the triumph of the individual will despite all impediments, a show about people, artists for the most part, whose daily lives depend upon the free exercise of their wills to create — out of nothing, out of moments — something beautiful.
At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfection, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path towards it, and the will to follow that path if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments ("Freedom From Fear and Other Writings," 1995; italics added).
HIV preventive interventions focused on vulnerable groups such as sex workers have traditionally targeted individual behaviour only, with impediments to success frequently including structural factors beyond the scope of these programmes [ 5, 6].
General Practice training organisations should involve themselves with the entire practice and consider providing management expertise and support to individual practices to overcome impediments to change and to help them develop supportive supervision and a learning culture.
Ram officials here said they might eventually sell to individual consumers, but an impediment is ready access to fuel stations.
Today, explicit discussions of homesickness are rare, for the emotion is typically regarded as an embarrassing impediment to individual progress and prosperity.
Cohen's 'egalitarian ethos' was criticized by various authors, the main criticism being that the extension of principles of justice to the individual/social life implies an impediment to individual freedom.
Given that respiratory droplet transmission between mammals is possible and that respiratory droplet transmissible A/H5N1 mutants are likely to evolve in infected individuals, the primary impediment to transmission could be whether the respiratory droplet transmissible A/H5N1 viruses comprise a sufficient proportion of the within-host viral population to actually transmit.
