Quite often in economic history, such associations have also worked to impede innovation and creative destruction.
Especially committed to Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender rights, his work with many LGBT groups contributed to the greater freedom and respect LGBT people enjoy today despite the homophobia that still works to impede that progress.
Scientists think that a black hole and its galaxy are engaged in a kind of astronomical balancing act — as a galaxy expands, the black hole at its center works to impede the growth and prevent new stars from developing.
These mists of darkness work to impede the progress of all those who pursue lasting happiness and contentment.
This would help to measure the quality of the patent system itself, and offer some way of evaluating whether it is working to promote innovation, or to impede it.But most of all, patent offices need to find ways of applying standards more strictly.
Our findings suggest that health system and contextual barriers work together to impede TB diagnosis at health centers and, if not addressed, could hinder TB case detection efforts.
Does the FCC's public utility-style regulation of wireline incumbent telephone companies (abbreviated here as ILECs) and their legacy copper-based voice services work to protect consumers or impede broadband competition?
Mr Patriota said it was going to request that the United Nations work on regulation "to impede abuses and protect the privacy" of internet users.
While issues inherent in our current system of copyright law, including orphaned works, will continue to impede access, none of these problems is increased by the settlement.
The relationship between the worker, workplace and the functioning of workplace rehabilitation systems has been identified as a barrier to recovery with employer-related factors, such as the reluctance or an inability to offer workplace accommodations, shown to impede work participation [ 29].
The same was done for the proportion of those whose self-estimated ability to return to work was impeded when exposed to negative/wrongful encounters compared to those who stated that it was not influenced or facilitated.
