Rather than being keen on taxes and public spending, European liberals are often derided (notably in France) for seeking minimal government in fact, for denying that government has any useful role at all, aside from pruning vital regulation and subverting the norms of decency that impede the poor from being ground down.
The Argentinians included a transitory clause in their new constitution to impede Carlos Menem from running again.
The security services try to impede foreign journalists from visiting leaders who have been released from jail, and keep the two most senior figures under lock and key.
The risk of a bad test experience such as a wrong medical decision being made due to imperfect understanding of test results impede less confident doctors from ordering them.
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It would also impede the Federal Housing Administration from originating guaranteed mortgage loans, making it very hard for lower-income citizens to buy homes.
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Republican governors in states such as Ohio, Nebraska and Louisiana argue income taxes impede economic growth and discourage businesses from locating in their states.
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When people talked about uncertainty, what they really meant was that if business held back from investing, it would impede the recovery in the economy.
It follows that targeting national innovation investments too narrowly in specific sectors from the top down can significantly impede essential technology and market migrations.
At this point we're not talking about hiding personal facts from inquiring minds, but an effort to impede the legitimate and necessary functioning of our court system.
Barack Obama has pinned his hopes for recovery on a doubling of exports, a goal that China's many barriers to trade, from discriminatory government procurement to the undervalued yuan, impede.
The move reflects governments' reluctance to impede internet businesses that might spur economic growth, and follows fierce lobbying from technology companies including Facebook and Google.
The first priority in the Russian strategy for undermining Azerbaijan, as the Center has long argued, (2) remains the fostering of regional political upheaval designed to destabilize the southern Caucasus and to impede the Azerbaijani leadership's ability to consolidate its nation's independence from Moscow.
The FERC quote mentioned above is from a 2007 study called The Potential Benefits Of Distributed Generation And Rate-Related Issues That May Impede Their Expansion.
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Short of protecting our persons and property from fraud, brigandage and like abuses through an impartial application of the law, government can only impede the natural flow of commerce.
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