Sentences with phrase «seen as an impediment»

Importantly, the government's actions to mitigate risks in the mortgage market were not seen as an impediment to easier monetary policy.

For many people, including many Christians, Jesus is seen as an impediment to God, an obstacle we have to get around.

Writers such as John Bright and Richard Cobden opposed both aristocratic privilege and property, which they saw as an impediment to the development of a class of yeoman farmers.

During the Paterson administration you guys couldn't make the «myriad requirements» high enough or taxed enough... now you see it as an impediment to business?

My concern is that if the turbines are placed in the base's flight path, they could be seen as impediments to future operations and could tilt the scales towards closure in the next round of reviews.

«We realized that students don't see these as impediments, but rather as challenges,» Canuel says.

BTR was launched in 2003 by the Boston Public Schools and the Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE) in a joint response to what then - superintendent Thomas Payzant saw as impediments to the district's success.

The state's move effectively shifted control over spending decisions from the state legislature to local school districts and eliminated a slew of state - imposed spending rules that many local districts saw as impediments...

The state's move effectively shifted control over spending decisions from the state legislature to local school districts and eliminated a slew of state - imposed spending rules that many local districts saw as impediments to doing the most with their dollars.

I find it rather dismaying that my career can be seen as an impediment to lending a helping hand to Indie authors, who operate on a shoestring budget.

After a series of disputes with government officials and business leaders, who saw her as an impediment to development in the Amazon, Silva submitted her resignation from the position of Environmental Minister in 2008.

Although Denison was a lawyer and cavalry officer prior to becoming a magistrate, the vast majority of judicial officers of that day had no previous legal training and did not see this as an impediment to fulfilling the role of magistrate.

Not exact matches

But they don't see macroeconomic forces as the impediment.

And sometimes that's the problem with them: «I see [mental health] as a potential impediment in times of crisis.»

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

What he finds an impediment to men is the later development in which «the individual Christian, body and soul, came to be seen as the bride of Christ.»

It seems to me that if Christians took Jesus seriously, we would approach wealth with great trepidation, seeing it not as an entitled right, but as a potentially dangerous impediment to the gospel.

Despite the Unification Church's ambiguous self - designation as «Christian» and its desire to unify all religions under a single ideology which it also designates as in some sense Christian, Principle finally sees Christianity itself as an impediment to the work of the Lord of the Second Advent.

Common - law marriage is seen as often the result of economic impediments.

There are two impediments to seeing things as they are.

The Frenchman has become a divisive figure for many Arsenal fans who see his lack of pace and habit of missing a few too many big chances at vital moments as impediments to success.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Mothers, instead of being encouraged to think about how to combine breastfeeding with other work, are persuaded to see their babies as impediments to their careers.

Leading figures from Syracuse University and Upstate Medical University, who see I - 81 as an eyesore and impediment to the growth of their respective institutions, have expressed support for removal.

By all accounts, Cuomo didn't like Schneiderman, seeing him as being an impediment to his national ambitions within the Democratic Party.

Silver was seen as the lone impediment to the state removing its ban on the sport and allowing the (notoriously underfunded) New York State Athletic Commission to issue regulations so that New Yorkers can reap the financial benefits of the large events that are now

This is widely admitted in the U.S., where the impediments to disarmament are being seen more and more as economic, political and emotional in origin rather than as based on operational military considerations.

I was also measuring predation risk, to see whether wolves and other predators influence elk movements by causing them to avoid areas with escape impediments, such as downed wood and thick brush.

But most of the finer sediment, he believes, spreads far and wide — into the Essex marshes, for instance, and even to the shores of Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany: «Any plan to prevent erosion of Holderness could be seen as a major impediment to the development of some of the valuable coastlines of Europe.»

I commit to seeing the people and circumstances in my dating experience as mistakes, baggage, enemies and impediments to having the relationship I want.

To win that war, those of us who see teachers unions as the biggest impediment to any real education reform can not afford to let up.

As more and more Democrats come to see that the teachers unions, with their rigid work rules and insistence on preserving the failing status quo, are the biggest impediment to education reform, the unions can either become more conciliatory or they can double down.

As usual, Lamar saw everything, but Lamar had a speech impediment.

But I can't see how you can argue that ETFs increase vulnerability to market fluctuations and serve as an impediment to your objective of preserving capital.

While many potential home buyers see the rise in home prices as an impediment to homeownership, it isn't all bad news.

Note that these economists saw governance (actually the lack of it) in many of the world's struggling places as an impediment to almost every priority on their list.

They see skeptics and their willing collaborators in the political and corporate sectors as impediments to saving humanity from catastrophe.

His conclusion, which I see as robustly supported by peer - reviewed work (including the new paper), is that 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.

I see that as usual complete ignorance of the facts is no impediment to opinionated comments like E. O'Neal's.

It's a global club which sees nation states as significant obstacles to their ambition, but not permanent impediments.

However, KPMG US blockchain lead Eamonn Maguire says he doesn't believe enterprise clients see the events as an impediment to progress for the industry at large.

Seeing her Mom as an ally gives Agatha the confidence to work through this temporary impediment, and to continue in pursuit of her love of creating music.

This casual disposal of the protections afforded native title demonstrates an underlying approach to native title that sees it more as an impediment than as an opportunity.