Sentence examples for modest impediment from inspiring English sources
Like other well-intentioned steps to fight corruption, they will make it a little bit harder to shift money around anonymously, but ultimately will be only a modest impediment to stanching the flood of illicit funds that course through the economy.
Cruz considers it a minor impediment.
In past cases, presidents used the powers he's invoking to grant work permits to modest, clearly defined populations facing some obvious impediment (war, persecution, natural disaster) to returning home.
Model results indicate that the floodplain constriction caused a significant impediment to flood conveyance at even modest discharges during prehistoric conditions.
Universities, foundations and other philanthropies have been the biggest impediment to passing Mr. Obama's more modest 28 percent limit, which did not exclude the charitable tax deduction.
The legalized bribery and non-functioning democracy he has decried, and which will entangle whoever is eventually elected in 2016, are no impediment to living a life of modest devotion and usefulness to others, whether in the community of the world, or in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday mornings.
However, most stem cell transplantation studies have yielded modest results, with cell death or displacement by the heart's contractions a significant impediment to cell engraftment and improved therapeutic outcome.
The turning of the business cycle could actually be a further impediment in that sense, because as the European economy slowly mends, the French temptation will be to hope that modest economic growth will again mask, like a tranquilizer, the underlying problems.
The slight speech impediment.
Parents are an impediment.
