Sentence examples for to impede progress from inspiring English sources

This practice serves to impede progress in science, and should be discouraged.

He said such issues should be considered separately so as not to impede progress toward a strongly worded treaty.

"Thailand investigated and prosecuted some cases against corrupt officials involved in trafficking, but trafficking-related corruption continued to impede progress," the report said.

Meaningful tax relief would provide all families with additional financial resources that they could use for their children's education -- while avoiding the constitutional barriers that continue to impede progress on vouchers.

As the former rebels in Libya try to assemble a government to replace the toppled Qaddafi government, the quiet hoarding of weapons and detainees illustrates the fissures of regional rivalry and mutual distrust that continue to impede progress.

Not as hands on, he maneuvers differently around the Rangers, but is so taken with Sather's glory days in Edmonton, he allows his resident Yoda to impede progress by rewarding Mark Messier with ice time for star services rendered years ago.

Other work aims to go a step further: to change flows from patterns that impede progress to patterns that will help.

And that one of the dictionary definitions of Disrupt is "to interrupt or impede progress", rather than the opposite.

Though this program is only in pilot trials in Austin and Salt Lake City, it's clear the carriers are hoping to delay and impede progress of competitive solutions when they can, using regulatory red tape and any other legal loopholes they can find.

Booker, playing against Democratic Party stereotype, pointed to ways regulations could impede progress.

Either that, or a failure to get along can impede progress.