1.   Basketball always impeded his work in baseball, which Thornton played only in the spring and summer.

2.   But followers worry that such criticisms, whether valid or not, may dog her successors and impede their work.

3.   Richardson should remind the Taliban that it risks losing needed international assistance if it continues impeding the work of foreign aid workers who are women.

4.   Some Mexicans who followed the high-profile duel between the two reporters were annoyed that foreigners had impeded the work of a Mexican journalist.

5.   The Gurkhas, compact, brown-skinned men from the rugged mountains of southwest Asia, did not let the fatal accident impede their work.

6.   The men are to meet alone on Thursday, presumably to discuss the issue that threatens to impede the work of the Assembly, the disarmament of the IRA.

7.   Used shotgun powder in this last hoping it would do better than rifle powder x x x Revenge attempts have been gobbling much time, impeding other work.

8.   In October last year, Saddam Hussein started to impede their work even more seriously than before.

9.   Lekovic declined to elaborate on contents of the documents, for fear of impeding the work of investigators.

10.   Nervous security forces impeded the work of some foreign journalists covering the referendum.