Sentence examples for ready to impede from inspiring English sources

In the meantime, Bacchus, ever ready to impede the progress of the Portuguese in the East, convokes a council of the sea gods and incites them to arrange the shipwreck of the Portuguese fleet.

Be ready to block.

When Gregory XII, who succeeded Innocent (1406), seemed ready to reach an accord to end the papal schism, Ladislas in the spring of 1408 occupied Rome, Lazio (Latium), and Umbria and tried to impede the Council of Pisa.

Otherwise, it's going to impede medical research".

But it doesn't seem to impede him.

Each gene was known to impede programmed cell death.

And what will be done to impede their growth?

American sanctions continue to impede investment in Iran.

An exemption for immigration seems intended to impede such visibility, however.

Or do they tend to impede its development?

There is a systematic effort to impede marijuana research.