Sentence examples for serving as an impediment from inspiring English sources

Discovery has not been protected, the art has not been advanced, and now all it's doing is serving as an impediment to innovation.

As one high Israeli official put it, by ignoring the growing Iranian nuclear threat, and even serving as an impediment to international efforts to halt its nuclear pursuit, Turkey has shown that it is operating in a short-sighted manner that leaves the door open not to diplomacy, but to greater conflict in the region.

Thus, rather than serving as an impediment to progress, contradictory results across studies and methods may offer valuable insights into the genetic architecture of these disorders.

Yet their very artistry serves as an impediment to interpretation, since the Greeks embellished the myths with folktale and fiction told for its own sake.

Even if the markets do begin to take off again, the Federal Reserve is likely to serve as an impediment to any big upward moves.

Others argue that LanChile has reached a stage in which its go-it-alone philosophy serves as an impediment to growth.

Not true, as 8 of the 9 justices on the court said that the ruling permits total transparency; public disclosure might at least serve as an impediment to the free flow of special interest money.

Since then people have wondered how the law would be applied, and whether it would advance China's transformation into a market economy, or serve as an impediment to genuine competition.

But many people both inside and outside Bedford-Stuyvesant also say that the organization that was intended to help bring prosperity to central Brooklyn -- the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation -- has served as an impediment to progress, an entrenched and sluggish bureaucracy instead of a spark plug for local entrepreneurs and nationally known merchants.

Smart government does not serve as an impediment to innovation, whether with arbitrary burdens of conditions, ignorance of the real marketplace or by moving at a glacial pace.

But it could serve as an impediment to social advancement unless it was replaced by the more formal arrangement of matrimonium.