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The ending, impeded by a retrospective coda, diminishes the full cathartic impact.

October’s economic data will be more difficult to produce because the shutdown impeded agencies’ abilities to field, collect, and process survey responses and price checks during the month.

Guimaraes may have argued the case with referee Stuart Attwell that Pope was impeded, but the goal rightly stood and Newcastle never recovered.

He described the University of Chicago as an "idyllic academic institution" where he was "instilled with the capacity for critical thought and an ethical compulsion not to suffer fools who impeded his search for truth".

"Economic and political weakness has impeded the growth of top-level football. Only with the transition to the current US ownership is the transformation from non-self-sufficient sports clubs to fully-fledged businesses taking place."