1.   Read in studio Hurricane force winds are hampering efforts to save seals caught in the Shetland oil slick.

2.   Search and rescue efforts were hampered Friday by rain and heavy seas.

3.   Search efforts were hampered by strong winds and fifteen foot waves.

4.   Stuyvesant, grousing, harassed the exiles and hampered their efforts to buy homes and cemetery plots.

5.   Survivors of the Paddington rail disaster told the inquiry that inadequate emergency equipment hampered efforts to save lives.

6.   The lack of a widely-used system of branding hampered official efforts to hinder the disposal of stolen animals.

7.   Yet Mycobacterium leprae has proved resistant to attempts to grow it in the laboratory, seriously hampering efforts to make vaccines.