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How to use the word impedes in a Sentence?

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He has severe ADHD and, so, when you’re in a school setting and you have a mask on your face and the one thing you’re paying the most attention to is your mask, touching it, moving it, that impedes his learning in a school setting.

Margaret Rudnick

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This situation is not sustainable and seriously impedes private sector and general economic development.

Zsuzsanna Hargitai

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The situation in the federal judiciary with respect to these nationwide injunctions, which have proliferated to an unprecedented degree, is intolerable. And it impedes democracy from functioning.

Stephen Miller

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

But when individuals provide fabricated allegations to The Senate Judiciary Committee, diverting The Senate Judiciary Committee resources during time-sensitive investigations, The Senate Judiciary Committee materially impedes our work.

Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There’s a permanent severability to your property as a result of that, and that impedes efficient operations on all of your agriculture community.

Ben Leman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The myopic policy makers have no endgame. They stumble from one short-term fiscal or monetary stimulus to the next, despite overwhelming evidence that they only produce an ephemeral 'sugar high' and grow unproductive debt that impedes long-term growth, the chickens are now coming home to roost.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I don't like rhetoric, regardless of what country is making it, because it impedes our commanders from doing their jobs.

Harjit Sajjan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This legislation specifically impedes our ability to close Guantanamo in a way I have repeatedly argued is counterproductive to our efforts to defeat terrorism around the world, guantanamo is one of the premier mechanisms for jihadists to recruit.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This attack...impedes attempts to stop the epidemic from spreading and to trace those who may have come into contact with an infected person.

Corinne Ambler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On the face of it, this executive order should have been bullish if anything to oil, if it impedes oil moving of Venezuela in any way, but Venezuela is such a basket case that people tend to worry about so many other things concerning that country, and that's possibly what caused the market to go down.

Phil Flynn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Ricther

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

George Will

added by anonymous
14 years ago

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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