Sentence examples for was being impeded from inspiring English sources
It had been due to take off at 0800 hours – an hour after the police alleged the emergency flight was being impeded.
Even then there was a sense of injustice from the Brighton players who said Dunk was being impeded by Gary Hooper.
Dr. Melton said that he did not know for sure whether research was being impeded by the present constraints, but that he had to develop his own lines, a choice not open to researchers without private money.
The court judgment in 2009, which lifted the ban for consenting adults, was strongly influenced by arguments that the existing law was a blackmailers' charter and that HIV treatment was being impeded by fear and secrecy among gay people.
Mr. Bush was clearly sending several signals: that he was ready to assume the presidency; that important business was being impeded by the Gore campaign's challenges of the vote count in Florida, and that any cool-headed analysis of the mechanical recount there gave him the victory.
Recovery in southern Europe was being impeded by continuing credit constraints, argued Mr Draghi, citing the fact that small and medium sized firms found it much more dificult to access credit in countries like Spain and Portugal than those in Germany and Austria.
But only a change in popular culture can seriously affect attitudes, and, at the moment, that change is being impeded by an improbable enemy — the Motion Picture Association of America.
But the effort to address the threat is being impeded by the body that should be leading the response: the United Nations.
In public statements, though, energy industry executives have said drilling and production are being impeded by a shortage of processing plants and pipelines.
A promise of agrarian reform is being impeded by problems figuring out who owns what land; the official registry says people have title to one-fourth more land than there is national territory.
Progressive Arab states, like Jordan, Morocco and Bahrain, which want to build their legitimacy not on how they confront Israel but on how well they prepare their people for the future, are being impeded.
