Lotty, as she was called, suffered several serious illnesses during her early years, conditions of ill health and obesity would impede her physical well-being throughout her life.

An appropriate conjuncture may facilitate decision-making and action, while inappropriate international conditions may create great difficulties and even impede international action.

Its thickened and tarry condition impedes its passage through the pulmonary capillaries and the pulmonary circulation in general.

Bad infrastructural conditions though often impede an optimal exhaustion of touristic potential in Oudomxay province.

These conditions impede delivery of the social services that can help to stabilize troubled lives.

Edmunds also believed that warring conditions with the Indians in the territory impeded white settlement by creating a negative public perception of Dakota Territory.

It was unlikely that these conditions would impede a plan to turn Wisconsin into a permanent museum ship at her berth in Norfolk.

The appeals court agreed with the defense argument that his strokes and heart problems had caused mild dementia, a condition that Chilean law says impedes a defendant from adequately defending himself.

Cloudy conditions will impede a honey bee from working.

To his intense chagrin he soon found that his leg was more badly injured than he had thought, and that its condition seriously impeded his progress.