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• v  be a hindrance or obstacle to
• v  block passage through

• The question now is whether those numbers will impede the president's ability to achieve the transformative goals he set out for himself, particularly in the area of health care .
• Ordinary people, too, have motive to sell their gold jewelry during a recession, which should increase the supply of gold on the open market and impede a price hike.
• In these and other enterprises, he sought innovative approaches and obtained a ground-level view of the complex issues that can impede great goals that are otherwise medically and .

• hinder
• obstruct
• obturate
• occlude
• jam
• block
• close up

• free

News & Articles

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• Singh Seen Risking Fiscal Aims on $21 Billion Food Plan: Economy
  Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s $21 billion-a-year program to provide cheap food for the poor threatens to impede the nation’s efforts to pare the widest budget deficit in major emerging countries.
  July 9, 2013 - Bloomberg
• Without Free Trade, U.S. Consumer Interests Best Represented by EU Negotiators in the Transatlantic Trade Talks
  Today marks the official commencement of the much anticipated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations in Washington. An eventual agreement could eliminate tariffs and curb superfluous rules and regulations that impede commerce and raise costs for businesses and consumers in the world’s largest economies.
  July 9, 2013 - Cato Institute
• Feds bar new mining claims in solar energy zones
  Federal officials have taken another step toward establishing 17 new "solar energy zones" on public lands in the West by barring new mining claims that could impede renewable energy development on the sites.
  July 7, 2013 - KSL Salt Lake City

Quotes

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• Max Mosley in Inside Track Motorsport News
  I will not allow any of this to impede my commitment to the FIA,said Mosley, who has been president of FIA - an unpaid role - since 1993. "From information provided to me by an impeccable high-level source close to the UK police and...
• Major Michael Donnelly in Forbes
  Donnelly said militant gunmen "are using civilians as protection and have no regard for the innocent. Currently there are berms (earthen barriers) placed to impede movement to/from the city by the militia group, who have fired on CF (Coalition...
• Charles Schumer in International Herald Tribune
  Senator Schumer said that "Democrats will not obstruct or impede a nominee who we are confident will put the rule of law above political considerations."