We blamed our impeded progress on lack of money.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Zimbabwean officials after authorities "impeded" US diplomats 'attempts to meet with Meldrum on Thursday and Friday.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Competitors 'impeded' from entering or expanding in SVR market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motoring] Reference

Bad weather and difficult terrain impeded efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plane Crash Near Pakistani Capital Kills 152] Reference

Have the past two resolutions impeded our activities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘We Are Not Pursuing Adventurism’] Reference

Some government policies aided recovery; some impeded it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Escape] Reference

The study argues that bureaucratic red tape impeded progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons from Katrina] Reference

Whether that impeded the police investigation, we don't know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Sacrificing Gary Condit] Reference

Markets are resilient, but their recovery can be impeded by bad policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fed Can't Solve Our Economic Woes] Reference

He reported the wagon trains far behind, impeded by a bad road in Luray Valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

But our quest was impeded by moisture caused by the friction of the shake itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Set (and Temporarily Lost) a World Record] Reference

Could it in fact have impeded the search for a compromise between government and rebels?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dueling Over Darfur] Reference

The opposite houses were visible, and the ordinary traffic of the streets was not impeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Gibbs's brigade, which was bringing up my mud-impeded train, did not arrive until the 5th of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Justice, what, 88; the course of, impeded in Crete, 59; different in different situations, 74.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference

And the best thing for Palin is that none of her personal emotional baggage impeded her success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Night's Primary And The State Of Your Political Media Narratives] Reference

But even Pickens isn't averse to the sort of NIMBY-ism that has impeded new energy infrastructure.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Boone Pickens’s Mighty Wind] Reference

Mrs. Draper's was quite a lady-like cough, low and gentle, and seemed rather like impeded respiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rich Enough a tale of the times] Reference

There seems to be an optimal level of trust, above or below which innovativeness or creativity is impeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Too Much Trust Is Death To Innovation] Reference

 Words came slowly to me, but Molly was never impeded by problems with articulating what was on her mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Then: Parts 1-3] Reference

Work at an office can be seriously impeded if every time one person goes to the desk of another the other rises.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference

When she first started, the swells caused by the launch rocked her little canoe quite roughly and impeded her progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War] Reference

They were frantic with delight, only regretting that so many "Yankees" had escaped, and seriously impeded our movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

In October, 1864, during a raid, he impeded the navigation of the Tennessee River, which was filled with Federal gunboats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference

Both kinds showed a tendency to form clusters, the compactness of which impeded the movements of those which were in motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

The slippery mud dragged him back and impeded his progress, but he struggled on through the blinding storm towards the barn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Feather Hex] Reference

The power of conveying the food to the mouth is at length so much impeded that he is obliged to consent to be fed by others.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the Shaking Palsy] Reference

However, he said that flawed agreements filled with loopholes and clauses for special interests have impeded broader benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [No End of Free Trade] Reference

Espérance dashed on, utterly regardless of the bushes and briars that impeded his progress and tore great rents in his garments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

The river steamers, with their tall smokestacks and light guards extending out, were so much impeded that the gunboats got far ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The biggest complaint seems to be poor communication between management and workers - 64 percent claimed that this impeded their work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working In Dilbert's World] Reference

For a short distance I traveled on the road, but soon found it so blocked with wagons and wounded men that my progress was impeded, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

They reflect a season in which the schedulers 'sudoku-like thematic games have never – OK, rarely – impeded strong programme making.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC Proms 65 and 66 Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle] Reference

He was particularly severe on the cavalry, saying, among other things, that it had impeded the march of the Fifth Corps by occupying the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

"Indeed I feared so," he responded with impeded utterance, "and yet I should like very much to live a little longer, if it were possible.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

I walk and hop through the nest on my long legs and am not impeded by any living or dead matter, by the nest twigs or the finished corners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nest] Reference