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But he said improvements were being impeded by some trade unions' resistance to change.

This ruling went into effect less than a month after our report argued that legitimate technologies were being impeded by a misuse of copyright law.

Even then there was a sense of injustice from the Brighton players who said Dunk was being impeded by Gary Hooper.

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.

It had been due to take off at 0800 hours – an hour after the police alleged the emergency flight was being impeded.

But the effort to address the threat is being impeded by the body that should be leading the response: the United Nations.

Yesterday the justice minister, Charlie Flanagan, said he was concerned by reports that the investigation into the death of a chief prison officer in Portlaoise was being "impeded".

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.

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.

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.