Sentence examples for may have retarded from inspiring English sources

The Nobles Land Bankk, set up in 1885, made loans to landowners at more favourable rates of interest; it may have retarded, but did not prevent, the passage of land from landowners to peasants.

Chlorite was precipitated mainly as grain rims (Fig. 4e), which may have retarded quartz cementation in the mesodiagenetic stage.

In this case, the strong compressional stress exerted in the overlying silt interval due to sliding (discussed below) may have retarded the upward injection of liquefied sand or evidence of the upward injection may have been erased by the sliding to be convoluted portion (the lower portion of the silt part in the Example 1) or to be horizontally stretched as thin sand layers (Examples 1 and 2).

Conversely, patients with depression may have retarded or inhibited thinking.

This may have retarded plaque progression in this group.

It is a difficult problem to solve, how much depends, upon the inherent powers of nature, or human skill, or whether the results are not in spite of the doctor, who may have retarded cures and hastened death.

One study [ 44] showed that almost half of all patients with pelvic fractures likely to benefit from use of an external fixation device probably did not obtain the expected benefit because of the presence of at least one arterial lesion; the implantation of the external fixation device may well have retarded therapeutic embolization in these cases.

Both of these manifestations of injustice have retarded happiness.

Alternatively an individual may be described as having retarded or inhibited thinking, in which thoughts seem to progress slowly with few associations.

Shortage of high quality food (for example, densely microbially colonised leaf patches) may have caused retarded development at high larval density, affecting all individuals in a similar way.

This expansion of Pacific oyster in the North Sea occurred much later after their first introduction than along the French Atlantic coast, suggesting that increase in population size may have been retarded by false or irregular recruitment depending on water temperature [ 15– 15].