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impediment
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  • Besides other impediments, it may be remarked that, where there is a consciousness of unjust or dishonorable purposes, communication is always checked by distrust in proportion to the number whose concurrence is necessary.  (source)
    impediments = things that interfere with action or progress
  • Tyler's speech impediment kept him quiet, made his tongue heavy.†  (source)
  • True, I was an impediment, but rumours of a separation had been squashed.†  (source)
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  • 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)
  • 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)
    impediments = things that interfere with action or progress
  • 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)
  • But halfway through the round, my arms became impediments.†  (source)
  • He had a speech impediment that caused him to stutter badly.†  (source)
  • Above that point, there begin to be structural impediments to the ability of the group to agree and act with one voice.†  (source)
  • We were going to do the Impediment Curse!†  (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)
  • 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)
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