Sentence examples similar to to impede something from inspiring English sources

Kurdish leaders in both Syria and Iraq have pleaded with the US-led coalition for more than a week to do something to impede the militants' advance through a rural area with a population of about 400,000.

"Unless they've been exposed to heavy socialization, the average wife is so afraid that she will do something to impede her husband's success that she turns reticent and doesn't make an effort to get involved, or charitable," she said.

Because, he wrote, if you spend so many hours at something you loathe, "it is going to impede your ability to do your best work".

Otherwise, it's going to impede medical research".

But it doesn't seem to impede him.

Each gene was known to impede programmed cell death.

There were few opponents who dared to impede his progress.

The Americans followed, with no formed institutions to impede them.

However, a high inflation rate continued to impede economic growth.

And what will be done to impede their growth?

American sanctions continue to impede investment in Iran.