The old curriculum was not just an impediment, it was actually driving people away.
His regime with its huge Marxist bureaucracy now is the impediment to reform.
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Tax competition almost certainly is the biggest impediment that now exists to restrain big government.
Of course, faulty syntax by itself has never been an impediment to successful advertising.
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The first is that his own unpopularity has become an impediment to the Republican cause.
Since then, our floating, unstable dollar has been the single biggest impediment to robust economic growth.
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But the author concludes the drugs were "no impediment" to being an effective president.
This is a problem for the developers of wind farms and a significant impediment.
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Failure to deliver it had become a major impediment to moving forward the peace process.
The largest impediment to this would be the U.S. Historically, it always has been.
Security Council that may be an impediment to freedom and democracy in this hemisphere.
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And the policy now is that there will be no impediment to press access.
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Trying to classify these markets as wholly private or wholly coercive becomes an impediment to clear thinking.
Once I got through security the only impediment was traffic, particularly getting out of the parking lot.
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The first, and probably insurmountable, impediment in the case just filed will be the cruise contract.
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That impediment being the executive branch is now his, he can go in a completely different direction.
Seventy-two years ago tomorrow, a chubby, stoop-shouldered, funny faced man with a speech impediment took a new job.
To the contrary, the Soviets have been the main impediment to the resolute and timely enforcement of sanctions.
People often cite the presumed high cost of healthy food as an impediment to maintaining a healthy weight.
And to have that two weeks out was an incredible impediment to our progress and to our program.
Hat tip to Susan Bart for calling the latest impediment to my attention and for suggesting the headline.
We tend to see each barrier, snag, impediment, and obstruction as an unwelcomed interruption to our untroubled existence.
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Over the longer term, the real impediment to competition between London's airports is Heathrow's power as a hub.
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But it's really not going to be an impediment to carrying out executions.
The film removes this impediment to love in queer fashion, but there's no denying the ending's novelty and economy.
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Residential segregation : Behind nearly every impediment for blacks in the labor market is the lingering impact of place.
Once the rules that govern the system are broken, moral hazard ceases to be an impediment, a circuit breaker.
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And now you have put that impediment behind us, once and for all.
Private providers complain that the practice of in-sourcing acts as an impediment to the expansion of the forensic market.
The shortage of fresh water supplies is a danger to human health and an impediment to economic progress.
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