impediments
- plural of impediment.
Example Sentences
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Impediments clearly remain: the river itself is chock-full of sewage and trash, both of which are dumped in untreated.
From Reuters • May 15, 2023
Impediments to taking a job are also cleared away.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 17, 2017
And as in the recent U.S.-Japan decisions over Structural Impediments to trade, if we both can do it, we will both be better off.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2014
The classic essay “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” is included in Hopes and Impediments, a collection that commemorates one of the most brilliant minds of our time.
From Newsweek • Mar. 22, 2013
Marriage, Impediments, Recording.—Legal marriage may be contracted only between unmarried persons not related within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity, of lawful age and sufficient mental and physical capacity.
From The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law by Scanlan, Charles M.