Sentence examples for severe impediment from inspiring English sources

But as experts note, water is the most severe impediment to increasing food production and security.

Luhrmann and Hall are correct in pointing out that managed care is a severe impediment to the application of this integrated approach.

This enables patent "trolls" to extort settlements from companies allegedly violating those patents; this is, in effect, a tax on technology and a severe impediment to actual innovation.

While law enforcement officials and governments in disparate jurisdictions once hesitated to work together to combat corporate fraud, graft has come to be seen as such a severe impediment to global economic growth that cooperation is becoming more frequent.

The employer may only dismiss a request if it is a severe impediment to business interest.

African trypanosomiasis is a neglected parasitic disease that is still of great public health relevance, and a severe impediment to agriculture in endemic areas.

Beliefs such as these caution anthropologists against narrow biogenetic explanations for the incest taboo and pose severe impediments to a universal definition.

Pollitt responds by noting that many Irish women go abroad for abortion — but those numbers are small relative to the abortion rates in other countries, and in any event they don't change the fact that Ireland throws up much more severe impediments to abortion than the kind of restrictions that inspired Wendy Davis's filibuster.

When I was young, I had a very severe speech impediment.

He has a severe speech impediment, which improved from the attentions of a beloved teacher, Josephine Kennedy.

She has dealt with the suicide of her father, two years of bulimia and a severe speech impediment.