In the context of the book as a whole it means that one reads the day-by-day, what's-gonna-go-wrong-next? account of impediments overcome with far greater attentiveness than the passages of achieved and qualified contentment.
I discussed this with my engineer and my shop foreman today, and we all agreed that the lack of shop-floor experience would be a crippling impediment for the next engineer.
On such a field of increasing obstacle and impediment is where the next battle will play out.
Of course, there will be at least one new structural impediment to cooperation in the next Congress: the presidential election season that will soon descend like the winter frost on Iowa and New Hampshire.
IMSD requires that program activities be designed based on institutional self-assessment relative to the research environment, challenges and impediments to advancement to the next step in training, and completion of the PhD degree.
So, broad diversification may well be a frustrating impediment to superior results in the next several years.
The Federal Communications Commission has recently begun proceedings that are widely expected to conclude in the next few months with the removal of many impediments to the expansion of broadband services by the nation's four regional Bell operating companies.
"He is very interested in the Ireland job and there seems no serious impediment to him agreeing terms in the next couple of days," said Murphy.
Research management and governance approval, the next step in the process, proved to be a considerable impediment to the successful execution of the project.
But, in deference to America's National Rifle Association, it was stressed that there should be no impediment to retail gun sales in the United States.The next step came in Austria, on April 30th, when the United States joined 45 other countries in promising to work for a United Nations protocol on small-arms traffic.
