Sentence examples for thwarting progress from inspiring English sources

At worst, it's thwarting progress entirely.

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.

And while a bipartisan group of Senators works to find consensus on climate legislation, Senator Murkowski does everything in her power to keep her funders happy by thwarting progress at every turn.

Regulatory bodies are sometimes blamed for thwarting progress but this seems a bit unfair since they are just doing what we as society have mandate them with.

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.

"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.