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made difficult or slow

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Corruption, criminality, illegal drugs and terrorism have impeded our progress in the past year,' he said.
The Solicitor General is mindful of the need to ensure that the jury's position is safeguarded and he wishes to draw attention to the risk of publishing material, including online, which could create a substantial risk that the course of justice in the inquests may be seriously impeded or prejudiced."
BEIRUT: The small number of smartphones in Lebanon that can use 4G has impeded the growth of this new technology, caretaker Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui said Friday.
"The issue is that, in this society, the ability of people to live a middle-class lifestyle is impeded without a college degree," McCarthy said.
For example, this affinity increased carbon dioxide's permeability relative to hydrogen but wasn't so strong that it impeded the contaminant's movement through the membrane, says Freeman.
Also, our industries are taxed, they are impeded by onerous environmental regulations and health care costs, aim our government subsidizes the building of infrastructure in foreign countries.
Since they view energy at wavelengths which are not impeded by glass, the Sniper model can look through glass or Pyrex viewing parts in ovens, furnaces and reactors.
This report gives a voice to advocates in countries where the Gag Rule has impeded efforts to reduce unsafe abortion.
Are creativity and imaginative thinking impeded by the emphasis that many American schools place on cooperative learning and collaborative thinking today?
Instead, the laws state that if a player has been unfairly impeded, the referee can award a direct free-kick.
GAO evaluated SBA's progress in implementing its transformation initiatives and challenges that have impeded or could impede implementation and whether SBA's transformation incorporates practices GAO has identified in previous work that are important to successful organizational change.
The district court held that the detainee's access to courts was impeded because the county sheriff and others interfered with the detainee's ability to exhaust administrative remedies, as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA).
But for years research has been seriously impeded because there is no accepted path for such a treatment to be approved for marketing.
Domingo Jimenez-Beltran, executive director of the EEA, said in a 7 February 2000 press release that this initiative "will increase access to timely, relevant, and reliable information on the environment by a wide range of language groups that are currently impeded by linguistic barriers."
Money and intellectual property have been stolen, corporate operations impeded, and jobs lost as a result of computer crime.