Sentence examples for physically impeding from inspiring English sources

The seed coat often contributes to the maintenance of dormancy by physically impeding the passage of water and gases to and from the embryo, by chemically inhibiting germination, and by mechanically restricting the growth of the embryo.

It is commonly assumed that the presence of lignin in biomass restricts enzymatic hydrolysis primarily by physically impeding the accessibility of cellulase to cellulose and unproductively binding cellulase.

It is generally recognized that the existence of lignins in lignocelluloses restricts enzymatic saccharification by physically impeding the accessibility of cellulase to cellulose [ 10].

Though there have been times when I've been physically impeded".

Many experts who study immigration on the southern border of the US note that the increased infrastructure along the border, particularly in Arizona, built to physically impede people from moving across the landscape, has intentionally created dangerous conditions where openings in the border are through the inhospitable dessert.

This behavior is thought to be controlled by a steric "gate", a structure that physically impedes ion flow in the closed state and moves out of the way during channel opening.

John Webster, Emeritus Professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Bristol, characterized this selective breeding as "the single most severe, systematic example of man's inhumanity to another sentient animal". These farms are so crowded that even the chickens who are biologically capable of normal movement are physically impeded from doing so.

The presence of a tracheostomy physically impedes swallowing.

Males engage in post-copulatory mate guarding [ 2] or block female copulatory openings to physically impede subsequent copulations [ 4] to achieve the latter.

Genetically manipulated mouse models might be used to test the hypothesis that mitochondrial proliferation, in the absence of respiratory dysfunction, can physically impede unloaded cardiomyocyte shortening.

The movement between these two states is thought to be controlled by a 'gate' which physically impedes the flow of ions in the closed state but which moves out of the way during the open state.