Again, given the experience of the Brady Law, the impediments to enforcement, and the relative ease of black market buying in a country with 300 million guns, I am extremely doubtful that background checks would have much impact on crime.
The law is an impediment, but so are family attitudes, most conservative in the countryside.
The House majority leader, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, told reporters that the health law was "an impediment to job growth" and that Republicans remained committed to its repeal.
Many said they saw him and his small family firm as continuing what they considered the stonewalling tactics of Cardinal Law and an impediment to settlement.
In fact, the argument that the law was an impediment was concocted by White House and Justice Department lawyers after Mr. Bush authorized spying on Americans' international communications.
Copyright laws may create impediments to digital collages like remixes and mashups, but they protect an author's right to say no to involuntary commingling of her work with others'.
Consequently, in many business schools most students get their only look at the legal environment in which they will operate from faculty who view the law as an impediment.
If, as Robert Prentice says ("An Ethics Lesson for Business Schools," Op-Ed, Aug. 20), business professors tend to "view the law as an impediment" and "impart to their students an impression that the law exists simply to be manipulated or evaded," we will undoubtedly continue to see a stream of ethical lapses and abuses in corporate America.
Parliament has for years been taken up with discussing, amending and voting on bills tailored to Berlusconi's personal needs and those of his companies, from the so-called Biondi decree of 1994, which tried to curb the powers of Italy's prosecutors, to the 2010 law of "legitimate impediment", which allowed Berlusconi to delay court proceedings against him.
So, while cannabis would certainly be seen as an essential medicine were its full utilities known and widely availed, widespread lack of education and the strained research environment due to national law and international treaty impediments means that many medical practitioners would not know basic indications or dosing strategies even if it were available for their use.
