impediment
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But remember, despair isn’t activism—it’s just another impediment to progress.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
This is, by far, the main structural impediment to success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
“That makes sense, and there’s no legal impediment to doing that.”
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
"The absence of documentation is a serious impediment to continuing your lives," he told AFP in the capital Kabul.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The other major impediment, equally daunting as the compensation problem at first glance, even more so upon reflection, was the relocation of the freed slaves.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
A spokesperson for the Swedish Migrations Agency said previously: "We can confirm receipt of a case of an impediments to enforcement which the agency now will process."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
But a 2015 Government Accountability Office investigation noted impediments to their use: uncertainty about which government functions were “inherently federal” and therefore outside tribal authority, a cumbersome application process, and cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
A therapist can offer tools to overcome mood disorders and other impediments to your mental health.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
Above that point, there begin to be structural impediments to the ability of the group to agree and act with one voice.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing impediment
"Harrison Bergeron"
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