Sentence examples for threatened impede from inspiring English sources

She explains how these people, while dispossessed and marginalised, have, through their Wurundjeri Council, still somehow managed to assert their rights to access urban land and, where heritage is threatened, impede new development.

In fitting revenge for his reduction of women to bodies, there has been thorough discussion of Weinstein's own ungainliness and girth (not incidental, as he allegedly used his imposing size to threaten, impede, and overwhelm his victims).

The eruption of audience coughing after every aria in Part I threatened to impede the momentum of Gardiner's conducting.

Melissa Talago, founder of Campfirecommunications.co.uk, decamped to the spare bedroom when working from the utility room – and household dumping ground – threatened to impede the growth of her business.

Senator Feinstein said that the deletion of the amendment she sponsored with Senator Russell D. Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, threatened to impede the fight against AIDS in Africa.

The move threatened to impede the hand recount of presidential votes in the disputed county, but she was quickly replaced by a county court judge.

Between 1948 and 1966, US forces in Greenland were entrenched in the 'other cold war': the struggle with the ice sheet environment which threatened to impede American capabilities in the region.

Team Sky's Froome stayed on the wheel of closest competitors Nairo Quintana and Joaquim Rodriguez as they climbed to the summit of Mont Semnoz and the Briton was forced to push away spectators with about three kilometres to go as they inadvertently threatened to impede his progress.

Taiwan's rapid economic growth during the latter half of the twentieth century led to saturation of highways, conventional rail, and air traffic systems in the western transport corridor, which threatened to impede further growth.

In 2013 a proposed Southwestern Electric Power Co. power-line project threatened to impede Thorncrown Chapel's peaceful setting but was defeated -- at least temporarily -- by a grassroots coalition that included The American Institute of Architects.

China is threatening to impede access to the sea-lanes off its coast.