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• v  be a hindrance or obstacle to
• v  hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
• v  put at a disadvantage
  The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements
• s  preventing movement

• Early this week the entire writer-producer staff of Top Model walked off the job, alleging that the show's executive producers are hindering their efforts to join the Writers Guild .
• Three months into the strike, 156 protesters, including King, were arrested for violating a 1921 law against "hindering" a bus.
• But far from hindering her, the prejudice she experienced as a child inspired a blend of defiance and pride that she expressed in her 1952 novel A Many-Splendoured Thing: "We must .

• impede
• hinder
• obstruct
• blockade
• block
• stymie
• stymy
• embarrass
• handicap
• hamper
• clogging
• impeding
• obstructive

News & Articles

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• Case of Middlesex County judge accused of harboring robber in her Woodbridge home moved to Somerset County
  MIDDLESEX COUNTY — The case involving a newly appointed state Superior Court judge accused of hindering the apprehension of a man wanted in connection with an Old Bridge armed robbery has been transferred to Somerset County, according to a state judiciary spokeswoman.
  June 14, 2013 - MyCentralJersey.com
• Superior Court judge arrested, charged with hindering police to protect a robbery suspect
  A Superior Court judge was arrested at her home Tuesday and charged with hindering police
  June 12, 2013 - The Star-Ledger
• Mother of school shooter pleads guilty to attempted hindering prosecution
  The mother of the Discovery Middle School shooter pleaded guilty to attempted hindering prosecution.
  June 11, 2013 - WAFF 48 News Huntsville

Quotes

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• Mahmoud Abbas in FOXNews
  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israeli army raids and a decision to renew excavations near a key Jerusalem holy site "are hindering the endeavor to reach a document with substance, to go to the conference."
• Gordon Brown in Reuters India
  Campbell had urged a timetable for full withdrawal, saying casualty levels were now unacceptable, but Brown said this would "undermine our international obligations, as well as hindering the task of our armed forces and increasing the risks they...
• Vladimir Putin in Reuters
  It is a shame that some of our partners are not helping us but, essentially, are hindering us,Putin said. "The very scale of this cynicism is astonishing -- the attempt to turn white into black, black into white and to adeptly portray...