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Example sentences for: impede

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The Washington Post lead, dwarfed by the quake headline below it, carries yesterday's warning by Maryland officials and environmentalists that a fractured response to the drought by regional officials could impede effective conservation of water.
The president reiterated that China would use force if necessary against the Taiwan "separatists" and against "foreign forces which try to impede the reunification of China."
The ability to independently voice security concerns to senior executives was viewed as important because such concerns could often be at odds with business managers' and system developers' desires to implement new computer applications quickly and avoid controls that would impede efficiency, user friendliness, and convenience.
Minor rearrangements of microsyntenic genes could potentially impede high-resolution mapping if placement of the syntenic markers within a relatively large segment indicated a missing sequence fragment, as reported for the comparative mapping of maize and sorghum [ 31].
Importantly, the task force, after intense debate, rejected categorical prohibitions lest they unintentionally impede the translation of research discoveries into tangible public benefits.