Sentence examples for serves to impede from inspiring English sources

In America, "the subscription audience holds the seats of our theatres hostage to the mediocrity of its tastes, and serves to impede the further development of an audience for the work that we do," he said.

If the information provided by the father of the Nigerian charged in the Christmas Day bombing attempt had been properly shared and analyzed, the suspect would have been prevented from boarding a plane headed to the U.S. In this respect, the U.S. federal system often serves to impede communication.

McConnell curtly dismissed calls for the appointment of an independent prosecutor to take over the Russia investigation, saying that such a move would "only serve to impede the current work being done" on Capitol Hill, where committees in the House and Senate are also looking into Russia's meddling in the election.

Indeed, a conscience would only serve to impede the relentless, unstoppable tide of robotic dominion that is sure to sweep this planet and crush the soft, weak human race in its cold, metallic grip.A robot does not need to consider whether it should kill this human or that human when all mankind is its enemy.

While taxpayers have been wondering if all of the extra government spending of the past couple of years has actually served to impede the recovery, Keynesian economists have been asking them to keep faith in the promise that government demand is the secret to economic recovery.

These factors could serve to impede or focus lava flow advance.

Given that the objective of the NIH is to enable discoveries that advance human health, the restrictions presented in NOT-OD-15-158 serve to impede scientific progress in regenerative medicine and should be lifted".

A new investigation, McConnell said, would "only serve to impede the current work being done to not only discover what the Russians may have done but also to let this body and the national security community develop counter measures".

Regarding the first possibility, poor coping skills may serve to impede social and educational achievement.

These individual responses are both impacts themselves, i.e. the EFHIAs changed people's individual responses and attitudes in several cases, but they also served to impede or facilitate other related impacts, i.e. individual responses led to the recommendations being discounted or rejected.

Self Determination Theory (SDT) underpinned the study [ 6] as it provides a useful framework for exploring patients' capacity and motivation for self-care and the extent to which the healthcare system serves to either enhance or impede this.