Sentence examples for thwarted progress from inspiring English sources

He has thwarted progress of any kind in the Legislative Branch, even though that branch is comprised of duly elected representatives.

However, a number of factors have thwarted progress in this field.

At worst, it's thwarting progress entirely.

The other is that it has on the whole used this power to protect the powerful and to thwart progress.

Its members were, he said, "determined to misuse the machinery of government to thwart progress in every important area of American life".

A referendum of some sort will be held to endorse any deal; Congress will then need to adopt detailed implementing legislation.This is where Mr Uribe will hope to thwart progress.

With Democrats trying to inch toward a final vote on the health care plan before Christmas, Republicans are using every tactic at their disposal to try to thwart progress.

Open-source zealots point all the way back to 1976, when Bill Gates wrote an "open letter to hobbyists," complaining that distributors of free, unauthorized copies of software created by what was then called Micro-Soft were disreputable pirates, thwarting progress by removing the financial incentives to improve and develop technology.

"It raises a slew of legal questions which risk giving the NRA the chance to thwart progress by tying it up in the courts," Newman said.

I grew up in a complex country with plenty of development challenges and a healthy supply of obstacles to thwart progress.

The medical profession is now being painted as a foil to the NRA ― an altruistic counterweight to a gun lobby that reliably thwarts progress on reform.