English example sentences with "hampered"

The midland region was hampered by lack of access to the sea.
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Dwindling resources have hampered the efforts of police to stem the rise of violent crime in the city.
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Heavy rain throughout the night has hampered efforts to rescue survivors from the stricken ferry.
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Our conversation was hampered by the presence of the driver of the hired wagonette, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation.
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Scientific progress should not be hampered.
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In Algeria, investors are hampered by red tape.
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Inwardly the Second Men differed from the earlier species in that they had shed most of those primitive relics which had hampered the First Men more than was realized. Not only were they free of appendix, tonsils and other useless excrescences, but also their whole structure was more firmly knit into unity. Their chemical organization was such that their tissues were kept in better repair. Their teeth, though proportionately small and few, were almost completely immune from caries. Such was their glandular equipment that puberty did not begin till twenty; and not till they were fifty did they reach maturity. At about one hundred and ninety their powers began to fail, and after a few years of contemplative retirement they almost invariably died before true senility could begin.
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Emergency services were hampered by onlookers.
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Poor weather conditions have hampered attempts to reach the hull of the sunken ship, in the past few days.
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For decades, distribution of vaccines in Africa and other warm regions has been hampered by the need to keep the vaccines refrigerated—a major challenge in remote areas without electric power.
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Without electricity, emergency response and trauma care are severely hampered.
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Without fuel, the healthcare system in the besieged territory is severely hampered.
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Ongoing conflict and instability have severely hampered economic development and infrastructure growth in Afghanistan.
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