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How to use the word impeded in a Sentence?

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It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Wendell Berry

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

Climate change... it impeded us a lot, it definitely is a contributing factor to the high prices.

Jerry Howard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Right now, we have to address the reality that we have hundreds, if not thousands, of tents choking virtually every public space in this city and that does not comport with the public’s expectations of what a humane response should be, while we want to be compassionate to those on the streets, we have to respect the fact that people don’t want their doorways blocked, they don’t want their businesses blocked, they don’t want sidewalks impeded.

Ted Wheeler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These include extra-judicial killings, sexual violence, looting of property, mass executions and impeded humanitarian access.

Alice Wairimu Nderitu

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

America's withdrawal from the international arena has impeded progress on the global response and left us more vulnerable to future pandemics, he will take action to cease the previous administration's process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization, and the Biden/Harris administration will participate in the WHO executive board meeting this week.

Jeff Zients

Found on CNN
3 years ago

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

Epictetus

added by Normando
3 years ago

The Embassy in Kabul had grown fairly large over the past decade, particularly as the number of violent incidents spiked in Kabul and it became necessary to increase security to ensure that diplomats could conduct routine business, i can understand some kind of reduction, but I would be concerned if a drawdown impeded our diplomats' ability to observe local events and interact with Afghans. We should not cut costs if it means we lose these vital connections.

Embassy Kabul

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I hope we pull back from the brink here because these tariffs will not be good for the economy, and I worry that it will slow, if not impeded significantly, the progress we were making economically for the country.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

However, the massive trust deficit in Pyongyang and in Washington toward each other has impeded the confidence-building process necessary to have constructive dialogue.

Keith Luse

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Ironically, Washington and other Western capitals have impeded potential progress through their often hypocritical focus on democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change.

United States

Found on CNN
7 years ago

When agents show up to CIS for a criminal investigation, they should never be impeded. That is obstruction of justice.

Claude Arnold

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The IRC alerted the (Greek) coast guard on Monday that we would not transport the world's most vulnerable people to a place where their freedom of movement is impeded upon.

Lucy Carrigan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Every human is a God in seed form waiting for it's flowering, but not letting it blossom impeded by his own ego, he remains earthly. So annihilate your ego and evolve to divinity MickeyMizing your life. Share this for conversion of angels from humans and let us all know only bliss :)

Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

It is essential to consumer protection, market integrity and the prevention of financial crime that we can rely on firms giving us the right information at the right time, bank of Beirut's failings impeded us and left it open to the risk that it might be used for financial crime.

Georgina Philippou

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They have filed 26 lawsuits, they have lost 26 lawsuits. These have really been obstructionist lawsuits by people that don’t want their views impeded on Nantucket Sound, opposite of what the wealthy folks on Cape Cod think, this will actually attract tourists.

George Bachrach

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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