The usual liberal response is to place impediments in the way of the poor growing into independent people, and thereby condemning their children to social impoverishment.
The voting rules southern states request don't ban African-Americans from voting or include any racial language at all; rather, they place impediments in the way of voting, which disproportionately (and usually intentionally) impact voters of color.
Limitations in predicting system response place impediments to risk assessments, which suggest that new complementary approaches would be needed.
Although the supreme court decision didn't do away with affirmative action, in the name of fairness it placed more impediments in the way of universities attempting to make their admissions processes more fair.
As they had on Wednesday, when they began their inspections by visiting a missile-engine factory, an adjacent graphite plant and a motor production complex, the leaders of the inspection teams acknowledged that the Iraqis had placed no impediments in the way of their work.
Shirk studied the Americans With Disabilities Act governing service animals and found no legal impediment to placing a dog with a child if a parent served as co-handler.
"There have been no impediments placed in our way," he said.
One is that over the past year the impediments placed by Iraq before the UN inspectors monitoring the weapons made their job virtually impossible, and now they have been thrown out.
Gilbert G. Flanagan, a lawyer for the museum, said the Parrish trustees had willingly made concessions, but found in the end that the guidelines placed too many impediments in the way of expansion.
The reason for this downfall may be multifold from incomplete understanding of the patho-physiology of disease, incomplete understanding of mechanism of action of the therapy, in-appropriate application in clinical practice, in-efficient therapy development related to flawed trial design, regulatory impediments placed on the trials or deficits in application of scientific techniques.
