Kim Brooks

At times, our collective anger seems a worthwhile thing - it has a weight and shape and force we couldn't achieve as individuals - but at other times, I can't help wondering how much it really accomplishes, if in some ways it might even impede us in our attempts to be more thoughtful, 'enlightened' human beings.

American Writer

Jan Schakowsky

We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action to budget responsibly and strengthen and expand the middle class. If we want this economy - and this country - to meet its full potential, the choice is simple.

American Politician

Jean Paul

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

German Author

Ash Sarkar

I can't help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as a way to opt out of dealing with the multiple processes that impede our full participation in society.

British Journalist

Paul Hawken

Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.

American Environmentalist

Richard Burr

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.

Campbell Brown

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

American Journalist

Kerry Kennedy

The U.S. government must stand on the side of human rights, the rule of law, and democratic progress, not impede or otherwise stunt such progress.

American Activist

Kevin Brady

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.

Robert Burns

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Scottish Poet

Imagine 'impede' as physically blocking progress or movement to understand its application better.

Visualize Blocking

'Impede' often has a negative connotation, suggesting frustration or inconvenience.

Negative Connotation

'Impede' can be used metaphorically to describe non-physical barriers such as emotional or cognitive ones.

Metaphorical Use

 know that it was over there the blast and you're going this way as long as you're going across crosswise to the wind once you're out and evacuating you want to keep as much of your skin your mouth and nose covered as long as that covering doesn't impede you moving and getting out of there and finally you

Surviving a nuclear...

 on the human voice have always really annoyed me, because beatbox is the best way of getting musical ideas out of your head and into the world, but they're sketches at best, which is what's annoyed me. If only, if only there was a way for these ideas to come out unimpeded

The polyphonic me PIPE...

 essentially at the speed of light. They're massless. And imagine someone incredibly important and popular and intelligent walks into the room. They're surrounded by people, and their passage through the room is impeded. It's almost like they get heavy. They get massive.

CERN's supercollider PIPE...

 There’s one more possibility to the disappearing ladders and snakes can impede your progress, but could they also help it? There are two paths to the 94 ladder that almost work, except for this snake, at exactly the midpoint between the two ladders.

Can you cheat death by...

 cools and once the universe is cold enough so the protons and electrons can combine to form mutual atoms the light can travel towards us unimpeded the universe becomes transparent as it leaves the last scattering surface it's

The making of cosmic...

 and can impede the brain activity necessary for survival at toxic doses. Alcohol also stimulates a small group of neurons that extends from the midbrain to the nucleus accumbens, a region important for motivation.

How does alcohol make...

 especially, came in unimpeded. UVB turns out to be incredibly important. It's very destructive, but it also catalyzes the production of vitamin D in the skin, vitamin D being a molecule that we very much need

Nina Jablonski breaks...

 important the overarching issue of our lifetimes nature is running its course here on impeded you know everything that needs to be happening is happening and you don't want that to change

See Antarctica Like...

 has been allowed to remain standing. At their best, nominalizations help us express complex ideas, perception, intelligence, epistemology. At their worst, they impede clear communication.

Beware of nominalizations...

 So I'm beginning to suspect that our specialization is beginning to impede our progress at best, and at worst, is leading us astray. That's because life on this planet and its history