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Will Bridgegate impede Chris Christie's chances of seeking higher office?

If following this diet stresses you out or interferes with your sleep patterns, it could also impede weight loss.

Moreover, they have been allowed to impede the realization of a crucial American national security interest.

That record will also severely impede his effectiveness in his portfolio.

Raise the rates, and you impede efficiency-enhancing transactions - and thereby harm everybody's economic welfare.

Many persons impede their execution by not keeping the thumb independent enough of the rest of the hand.

This mob of men and boys were good-natured, but very curious, and it gathered so close as to impede the progress of the ponies.

Hence the furrows are not ploughed close together, for the roots when crowded impede the sprouting of the plant.

All along the journey little absolutely unnecessary villages kept bobbing up to impede the progress of the train.

But you could do no good with so few men—they are more than ten to one, I hear—and your men would but impede us.