Sentence examples for slowing efforts from inspiring English sources

An education-ministry official says concerns about possible unrest are slowing efforts to separate the hybrid universities from their parent bodies.

The void in consistent leadership has cost the church in other ways — slowing efforts to recruit new congregants in a changing Harlem, a neighborhood ever more populated by young professionals.

Moderate rain fell on Wednesday in a part of northwestern China's Gansu Province, slowing efforts to find survivors and to deliver food and other aid to survivors who have lost homes from the floods.

The province blocked most international access to patients there until last month, slowing efforts by doctors to identify what has turned out to be not a bacterial infection but a new virus, believed to be part of the corona family of viruses.

"We cannot have a soldier behind every tree, in every field, on every road and in every market; it is impossible," he said, adding that United Nations forces had been trying to explain to the civilians that by besieging the bases they were slowing efforts to attack the hostile forces.

The implications of this problem-oriented approach are responsible for leaving many of the most important applied research questions unanswered, and for slowing efforts to prevent obesity and improve individual and population health.

The rules have slowed efforts to list abroad.

That slowed efforts to sell off significant portions of the government's stake.

Security problems have slowed efforts to ship food into Afghanistan and reopen aid offices.

Some who escaped said that disconnected water hoses slowed efforts to fight the blaze.

Any changes by Democrats to the Senate bill will slow efforts to reconcile the versions and finally pass legislation.