Sentences with word «impediment»

Instead, they only serve as impediments in opposition to the primary story - line, Mija enrolling in a poetry class in order to find a hidden beauty in the world.

«The prices of service plans are big impediments for many people,» said Shaw Wu, analyst with Kaufman Brothers.

«However, in promoting agriculture, we must take into consideration the menace of the herdsmen which has become major impediment as it is important for us to encourage our people to embrace farming.

He's a ultra-wealthy meglomaniac with the fashion sense of Russell Simmons and the speech impediment of Mike Tyson.

Resolved problems and removed impediments for the QA team, provided guidance on technical and strategic issues.

«The use of technology — texting, in particular — is probably one of the biggest impediments for developing social skills in young people today,» he said.

Their response to any stress or threat is to toke up, which leaves them easily distracted and seriously paranoid, which make for serious impediments when fleeing men with guns.

Harris counters these and other impediments with practical advice on starting — and sticking with — a meditation regimen, and he offers easy techniques for neophytes.

The collaborative divorce process seeks to minimize fear as it is the greatest impediment towards settlement.

He now believes that «these conversations are the [school's] project,» not impediments to some other, more distant goal.

This appears to me to be a historical artifact; I'm not aware of any legal impediments on a federal level that would prevent states or municipalities from using any voting system they want, so long as it treats all votes equally.

California could get roughly halfway to that goal in a perfect world — one without impediments such as higher costs, nimby fights and resistance from consumers and industries wedded to fossil fuels.

The only real impediment in disproving the existence of God is that the word is so poorly defined that we can't really be sure if we're talking about the same thing.

Take Japan: Tokyo shares American concerns about China but has seen the US withdraw from TPP in favor of a managed approach to trade that looks eerily similar to the US - Japan structural impediments initiatives of the 1990s.

Occasionally too, the game's freedoms become impediments.

The result was the suppression of important scientific findings on global warming, creating a huge impediment not only to passing measures to help fight global warming but even to simply acknowledging its impacts.

Yet, it's the Farrellys that undermine their own material, as if they felt they would let people down if they did not inject some gross - out moments, or people with impediments, for our amusement.

There's the titular Roger, voiced with a speech impediment by Charles Fleischer.

For now, coal seems to be sidestepping a serious potential impediment to its use: international accords restricting greenhouse gas emissions.

Traditional owners and their representatives were asked to identify resources that would assist in overcoming impediments to their participation in land agreements.

Although public libraries are often open during summer breaks, transportation and location remain impediments for low - income children.

The main impediment, from Cuba's point of view, is its listing by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Some results are appalling to everyone I know, conservatives and liberals alike, except big companies who want to hire people cheap because of such impediments to employment and those aligned with them.

This is in a city where traditionally people on foot or bike are seen as impediments rather than participants.

For half a century, Kitzinger has worked consistently both to show that childbirth can be a time of sexual fulfilment, and also to name and explore the many impediments which make this difficult for so many mothers.

Expungements and record sealings are effective legal methods of erasing past criminal charges — the primary impediments when a person with a criminal background applies for employment, housing or security clearances.

All of these characteristics create impediments for law departments to shift from the traditional model to these new models.

She states «There is a constant cycle of amnesia and return, of desire and demonization, commercialization and corruption of basic principles, and of impediments from without and dissension from within.»

In the past she has worked as part of a team in Matrix organisations where she has been instrumental in removing key impediments to project progress.

At first it appears that the largest impediment facing Florence and Edward is that old standby, the British class system.

This would constitute a very severe impediment to striking trade deals with other countries, like the US.

A large impediment facing the real estate industry today is the position and relationship of the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) with its constituents.

Inter-Africa Trade On intra-African trade, Ex-President Mahama said, «Why is it that Africa still puts more impediments into its way by preventing trade between ourselves?

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Apart from gender bias in the workplace, the biggest impediment towards female success in the executive world is women's natural tendency to undervalue their skills.

Ensuring successful preparation, execution and delivery of the programs schedules, as well as addressing impediments throughout all phases of the program cycle.

It has made pronouncements against war, promoted schemes for peace, leagues of nations, pacts for the outlawry of war, associations for international friendship, organizations of war resisters; but the march of Mars is halted not for a moment by the petty impediments placed in its way.

The «Devil Wears Prada» star - who developed the speech impediment at the age of seven - rarely...

Until this administration addresses the structural inequity in our schools and deals with poverty and other social impediments to learning, we'll be right back at this place again next year.»

«SERAP believes that amnesties or other impediments which preclude or indicate unwillingness to provide prompt and fair prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of grand corruption would violate the principle of good faith under international law.

Comcast faces a number of potential challenges to overcome in structuring a deal, none more formidable than the regulatory impediments posed by a deal.

From our perspective, there three fundamental impediments facing adoptive families in need of support: an acknowledgement of the need; a lack of relevant training for mental health providers; and funding.

I'm taking them from people who are leaving the Church, not because of the cost of discipleship, but because of the cost of false fundamentals — man - made impediments created out of non-essential doctrines and legalistic rules.

This project builds on previous studies in Iowa, Colorado and Missouri that found the removal of financial impediments resulted in a higher acceptance of IUDs and implants.