impediment
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But U.A.E. officials acknowledge the war could again prove an impediment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But remember, despair isn’t activism—it’s just another impediment to progress.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
“That makes sense, and there’s no legal impediment to doing that.”
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
"Human consent is not an impediment to progress. Human consent does not diminish the struggles and the joys of technological innovation or inhuman creativity," Blanchett said at the event in the parliament's library.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The only actual change that had come over him in the past years was that, for some reason, his impediment had gotten worse.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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For the eurozone, which has faced multiple economic shocks in recent years, any additional impediments to an economic recovery will be unwelcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The EPA also removed "all federal impediments to selling E10," gasoline blended with 10 percent ethanol, Zeldin said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
These impediments may well have disillusioned some of the voters who backed Move Forward three years ago.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Wiener said his bill would rectify those impediments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
Not counting Holy Week, Sundays, holy days of obligation, first Fridays, retreats, sacrifices, and cyclical impediments, her effective year was reduced to forty-two days that were spread out through a web of purple crosses.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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