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  • He had a speech impediment that caused him to stutter badly.†  (source)
  • Dr. Fiona said it was likely I would have a speech impediment and a weak right arm and right leg, so I would need extensive rehabilitation facilities, which Pakistan didn't have.†  (source)
  • WITHOUT WORK there was no impediment to Saeed and Nadia meeting during the day except for the fighting, but that impediment was a serious one.†  (source)
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  • Many could not read, which was a serious impediment now that I habitually read to Suleiman late in the afternoons.†  (source)
  • But halfway through the round, my arms became impediments.†  (source)
  • She seemed to be giving me as hostile a signal as she dared that I was an impediment to her relationship with Cassie, and she hated me for it.†  (source)
  • And yet, despite all the impediments and all the time that had passed, they were still deeply in love.†  (source)
  • It was endearing; so was his slight stutter, because it made us nervous for him—afraid for him, should he have his eloquence snatched from him and be struck down with a crippling speech impediment.†  (source)
  • I was thinking at that moment, wordlessly and rather deeply, how sublime friendship between Lestat and me might have been; how few impediments to it there would have been, and how much to be shared.†  (source)
  • Hiro has to slow down a little bit here because the Refus are all sleeping on the street for the time being, an impediment to traffic.†  (source)
  • Not counting Holy week, Sundays, holy days of obligation, first Fridays, retreats, sacrifices, and cyclical impediments, her effective year was reduced to forty-two days that were spread out through a web of purple crosses.†  (source)
  • The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about either mountaineering or flying didn't strike him as a major impediment.†  (source)
  • Of mongrel dogs, cats, partihued pigs, chickens, and pigeons—all normal impediments to navigation on the streets of Pistolville—no trace remained.†  (source)
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