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• Indeed, for the last two days, if I stopped for a minute to drink a nut, my legs were so stiff that they did not get into play for five minutes or so July 16th.—The captain of the "Iris" frigate passing Lifu dropped me a line which satisfied me that the French will meet with no impediment from the English Government in the prosecution of their plans out here. —  Life of John Coleridge Patteson
• Another impediment is the claims by Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora that in the closing years of World War I and immediately afterwards an Armenian genocide was lived in this country. —  Turkishdailynews Headlines
• Little things like our Constitution should be no impediment, as far as Egnor is concerned. —  Thoughts in a Haystack
• The ether was a useful concept for a while; then it became clear that it was an impediment, and finally actual, closely monitored experiments suggested its non-existence, a conclusion that was confirmed when new theory arrived to account for those observations and much else besides. —  The Inverse Square Blog
• Obviously, a huge impediment is the large number of Israeli settlers still in the West Bank, so there will have to be land swaps compensating Palestinians for lands lost to the settlers. —  Toronto Sun

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