impeded

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Impeded by language and cultural barriers, his wife, Elizabeth, was unable to establish her chosen career in pharmacy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2010

Impeded at the Narew River after taking Plonsk and Pultusk, they were halted last week at the Bug.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impeded by a script that has lines like "It's my funeral; you're just along for the ride," McQueen stops acting and settles for a series of long poses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impeded by straitened means, the artist seems frequently to have drawn from imagination rather than from life, and much of his anatomy of muscle is in consequence conventional and false.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

He Dines Out, Impeded by Superstitions Within the week I had repented of what I termed my idiotic quixotism, and for precisely nine days after that I cursed my folly.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch