Diving in Spain was hampered in the past by a police state that wanted a ream of paperwork before you were allowed to do anything. |
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Again the desire to express and evoke tender, inner feelings was hampered by precise, clear action. |
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Dating of the seismic reflectors in our dataset is hampered by the lack of accurately dated successions in deep boreholes in the region. |
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Most films of the time were still hampered by a sense of theatrical blocking of scenes into linear sequences. |
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Despite their best efforts, station officer Joe Hassle said a lack of access to water and the straw fuelling the fire hampered the crews. |
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Power outages, acts of sabotage and general unrest have hampered production. |
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The failure to provide witness protection has seriously hampered the effective implementation of the anticorruption drive. |
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Their removal may also be hampered by the amount of force required to overcome the initial frictional inertia between the glass and the cork. |
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His comeback was further hampered by the winter freeze-up that caused several reserve games to be postponed. |
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The bad weather has hampered the work of a fleet of clean-up ships which have been sent by countries from around Europe. |
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He has not been hampered by timidity or uncertainty, fitting into the side with calm assurance and revealing the extent of his ability. |
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She will get far if she is not hampered by her natural inclination to plumpness. |
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But these efforts were hampered by failed water pressure, exploding gas meters, arcing power lines and other serious hazards. |
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Third, germination of papyrus from seed may have been hampered by residual saline porewater in littoral soils. |
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Now, they were not so much hampered by rubble and debris as by several inches of sticky yellow mud. |
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He looked beaten on the run-in, and was being hampered by a loose horse, but rallied gamely for a thrilling triumph. |
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Admittedly, our sense of intrepidness is somewhat hampered by some of the ship's luxuries. |
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Most of the rest are either relatively secure or continually hampered by the interventionist policies going back nearly a century. |
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His flying was initially hampered by a rugby injury and when he reported the injury he was suspected of having a lack of moral fibre. |
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This novel could have been great but is hampered by a stiffness that could be attributed to inexperience. |
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Too many hurried shots from unlikely angles hampered their comeback attempt. |
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After a 2000 comeback attempt that was hampered by a leg injury, Miller retired from competition. |
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Using that tort settlement, the big brands have hampered tiny cut-rate rivals and raised prices with near impunity. |
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Retraining the Army seems not only to be a waste of time, but is hampered by the fact it is tainted as an army of collaboration. |
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However, in my attempts to understand I am not hampered by the persecutory activities of the state, religion or the mob. |
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With legitimate job prospects hampered by a felony record, many ex-convicts return to old hustles to survive. |
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Funny that, because much as I love the Union, it's hampered by its chinless clientele, and its live music doesn't always go down a treat. |
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It is unclear if it is the same knee that hampered him a short time ago and he will undergo tests later this week when the swelling subsides. |
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This is a serviceable Western hampered by the unchanged story aspects of a thousand horse operas and some peculiar and unnecessary stunt casting. |
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Federal laws against marijuana have hampered research on CBD for the past four decades. |
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The field was in good order but the damp conditions hampered the accuracy of the passing between sides. |
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Aid was being hampered only by the civil war and the difficulty of getting resources to the area, not by lack of cash. |
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It is a very capable off-road vehicle that is hampered by its lack of fuel-carrying capacity. |
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The resale of grain to villages which claimed to be deficient in food supplies hampered the flow of grain to the cities. |
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Similarly in Madrid, the police investigation did not appear to be hampered by lack of mobile phone data. |
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Furthermore, research has been hampered by a lack of standardised measures. |
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Initial plans to stage the game were hampered by a lack of a suitable date. |
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Mr Beadle said the market was surprisingly being hampered by a lack of listings. |
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Aid from around the world is coming in but the rescue work is being hampered by a lack of bulldozers and excavators. |
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Once the true cause of his death was established, police were hampered by a lack of witnesses. |
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Social services chiefs have warned that plans to boost the number of adoptions could be hampered by lack of staff. |
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The New World is not hampered by Old World restrictions and includes the white grapes in the blend and on the labels. |
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Scottish police officers are also hampered by restrictions on their powers of arrest. |
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Overall, the sale was hampered by a sharp increase in buy-backs that led to decreases in gross revenue and average price. |
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There are theories that men sprinting in flat shoes get out faster than women hampered by heels or waiting to help a colleague. |
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Even after completing this process, reps still faced everyday busywork that hampered productivity and got in the way of sales. |
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The book is further hampered by noninclusive language, a bane of numerous books published in England even today. |
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His ability was unquestioned, but his brusque and abrasive manner aroused hostility which probably hampered his early career. |
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And where Lean's similarly epic Dr Zhivago was hampered by a silly, overwrought plot, this has a clean spareness to it. |
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The rescue efforts were also hampered by huge boulders, broken tree trunks and thick mud. |
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Demand for cattle has been hampered by the flood of cheap unlabelled foreign imports and generally the price has dipped. |
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Five bookings and a sending off do not bode well for a team already hampered by injuries and forced absences. |
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In Nick's case, continuously driving in a slipstream hampered the air flow to cool the engine which created an additional problem. |
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The history of the first group of wines has been heavily influenced, nay hampered, by the commercial muscle of protectionist Bordeaux. |
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The roll-out will be further hampered by the product's initial unavailability on the pre-pay market. |
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Poor communication and transport in the remote and mountainous region also hampered operations. |
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His movies seem to be replete with great ideas hampered by wild mood swings of stupidity or silliness. |
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Some scenes are hampered by an eerie tinny sound during moments of silence. |
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Early attempts to assess and describe the flexibility of polymeric ssDNA and RNA were hampered by the inability to obtain monodisperse samples. |
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This also hampered the transport of some truckloads of produce from farmland in the south. |
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Like his father, his political career was hampered by his adherence to fair trade and his mercantile Birmingham roots. |
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Grasping the assailant's wrist and armpit he threw him over his shoulder but, hampered by his backpack, the throw was not clean. |
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Efforts to extinguish the blaze were hampered by the large amount of flammable material inside the building. |
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Rear visibility was somewhat hampered by wide A and C-pillars, quite a narrow rear screen and obstructive rear headrests. |
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In the American Civil War, textile shortages again hampered the Quartermaster Department's efforts to procure tentage. |
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This has severely hampered the government's efforts to convince those skeptical of the EU to trust it in the matter of the constitution. |
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But as the civil war drags on, there's a growing feeling of donor fatigue and many aid projects are being hampered by a lack of funds. |
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The most exciting prospect in British football has been hampered by injury for years now. |
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When students attempted to play the accompaniment to the artist's melody, they were hampered by not knowing the notes well enough. |
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When the police arrived 20 minutes later, the bus was still engulfed in flames, which hampered rescue efforts. |
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Effective management for this species is hampered because relatively little is known about nesting ecology. |
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Louise moves to the opening of the lounge, in stiff jerky movements as though hampered by the knitting of broken bones. |
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He has worked diligently on his conditioning, hoping to prevent muscle pulls and strains, which have hampered him during the season. |
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His smooth chat-up technique is hampered by an appalling taste in casual wear. |
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Lack of funding hampered the force, for without money or men it could not maintain units. |
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He will put an emphasis on stretching, and the Saints hope Smith's training can prevent the muscle pulls and tears that have hampered the team. |
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Queuing is hampered by the close proximity of the check-in desk to the shelves nearby. |
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Pipes says catching sleepers has been hampered by regulations, immigration law, and prohibitions on ethnic profiling. |
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Work was soon hampered by an inflow of large volumes of underground water in several shafts, keeping the whims occupied day and night. |
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Although hampered by prematch injuries, once again the side gave a brave display before going under to Antrim. |
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They, too, were followed by waves of aftershocks which hampered rescue work in an area littered with landmines laid during years of war. |
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The teens were hampered by poor reading and research skills and were more prone to leave a site after encountering difficulties. |
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Encyclicals have long been considered an imperfect genre, hampered by their style and hamstrung by the need to reconcile competing political and bureaucratic factions. |
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However, the Wigginton wallopers graciously conceded that their York opponents had been badly hampered by the absence of one of their star players. |
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The warren of tunnels and side passages hampered Bahzell's advance badly. |
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The meagre resources of Queen Anne's Bounty could not adequately address the internal structural problems of the church, which seriously hampered its pastoral efficiency. |
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Capitalism existed before the Industrial Revolution, but its development was hampered by technologies limited to water power and a lack of surplus labor. |
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Unfortunately, the debate was hampered by the acoustics in the hall, and many of the participants, myself included, were unable to follow much of what was said. |
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His long legs stretched well past her barrel which hampered her a bit, but Myrick was an well done rider and did his best to make her journey smooth. |
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We've been trying to solve the garden's drainage problems recently, but been hampered by the jungle-like growth of most of the things near the ditch. |
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Indeed, even coastal fisheries were severely hampered after 1941 by mounting shortages of cotton yarn, ramie, Manila hemp, and, most importantly, petroleum. |
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Hurricane-force winds hampered clean-up efforts with high drifts and white-out conditions, and, with snow this deep, you want more than just a shovel. |
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Apart from climate and pest control, English wine is greatly hampered by dodgy winemaking, with oxidation and overdosing with sulphur still common faults. |
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He is another lamebrain whose considerable talents are hampered by an out-of-control belligerency that's better suited to a raucous schoolyard game. |
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In many cases, a revolving door approach to higher administration on select campuses has hampered our colleagues, and colleges and or schools from achieving collective goals. |
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This revolving door concept hampered any chance of building sustained chemistry and camaraderie between the players and thereby undermined team play. |
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It hungers for change and progress, and some comics who are clearly on their way up can be hampered slightly if their show treads a little water this year. |
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The fight to bring the law up-to-date and stop cyber criminals running riot is severely hampered by the lack of understanding of the scope of the problem. |
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However, a broken leg in 1967, and sprained ankles prior to the 1968 Olympics, hampered his chances at Grenoble. |
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However, apart from using an unstable enzyme, our first route had other problems, caused by cell lysis during the biotransformation, which hampered product recovery. |
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Attempts to salvage the ship were hampered by thick fog on Saturday night and the bad weather continued yesterday morning, French coastguards said. |
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Nothing would be nicer than to hear a filmmaker backtrack and recall how studio tinkering hampered his vision, or how test audience ambivalence mutated his masterwork. |
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And yet he was convinced that nothing had hampered him and his schoolfellows so much as the grammatical perfectionism drummed into them by teachers. |
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But Carey may have been occasionally hampered by an irritability that is also common among those with hypomania. |
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Salmon reproduction was also hampered by the removal of spawning gravel from the streams in the 1950's, which was used for road surfacing or ballast. |
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Her rise to fame was hampered by a debilitating heroin addiction, stints in rehab, and troubles with the law. |
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The monitoring of seismic activity in Texas and studies of seismic risk are hampered by the small number of seismographic stations operating in the state. |
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Such is the quality of his work, that he does not need the neon lights, mood music and other special effects which so hampered last year's offering. |
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Poor marketing systems, a poor feeder road network, inadequate extension services accessed by farmers and inadequate inputs have hampered agricultural development. |
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Access for anyone in a wheelchair, she said, would have been severely hampered if not made impossible by the various items stored in the eight feet square room. |
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Bob Sura had the edge, but he has been hampered by a strained right calf. |
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The lack of power for fieldwork hampered nineteenth-century agriculture, although the replacement of oxen with horses improved the situation for most farmers. |
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The most obvious course for a politician tipped for greatness, yet hampered by a cherubic countenance and a light voice, would be to gain a reputation for solidity. |
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Endangered black-footed ferrets are extremely susceptible to sylvatic plague, a disease that has seriously hampered efforts to re-establish ferrets to their historical range. |
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Policies based on downsizing the public sector and the imposition of tight monetary policies had often undermined growth and hampered technological progress. |
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A refreshing breeze comforted the golfers but hampered their game. |
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In a house by a lake, muffled in polo necks and cardigans and hampered by poor language skills, Jamie falls for the Portuguese housekeeper, Aurelia. |
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Thick smoke filled the sky and hampered visibility, as road blocks were set up along Flores Road, at the intersections of Utakarra Road and Eighth Street. |
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Not only has delay hampered forensics, but another, less obvious advantage that police and prosecutors might once have exploited now also has been lost. |
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He said they were hampered by dreadful roads, frequent road blocks and gunpoint identity checks by the soldiers in the area because of the ongoing conflict. |
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The element being used to flesh out this film to its original version is hampered by a fuzzy, indistinct print that has color and contrast issues. |
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Harvesting can severely deplete wild populations that are already hampered by restricted ranges, harsh environments and low levels of seed production. |
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The agencies only have access to a limited number of documents in the LGT case and hence the probe is being hampered. |
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Pharmaceutical manufacturers have already been hampered by HIV's talent as a quick-change artist. |
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Progress toward independence, however, was hampered by a Guatemalan claim to sovereignty over Belizean territory. |
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Folkestone's trade and population grew slightly but development was still hampered by sand and silt from the Pent Stream. |
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Disruption caused by the war and the colonization hampered the traditional economy, and possibly led to shortages of food and materials. |
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The progress of his small ships was hampered by the fierce winds and high seas he encountered, eventually forcing him to turn back to New Spain. |
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The lack of English archers hampered the Norman archers, as there were few English arrows to be gathered up and reused. |
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Attaining correct orientation is hampered when a client's spirituality is voided intrapsychically by theological alienation. |
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Throughout my 40-plus years in optics our progress was always being hampered by an outmoded, inverted snobbery. |
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But for Flensburg, who were hampered by injuries to seven players, left-wing Anders Eggertsingle-handedly kept them in the hunt. |
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A bayonet made firing difficult, as its cumbersome shape hampered ramming down the charge into the barrel. |
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Hembrough is hampered by anything, it is Gwenda Hughes' directorial flippancies. |
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However, Wales' chances of victory against Brazil were hampered by an injury to John Charles that ruled him out of the match. |
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He began searching the Italian coast for Napoleon's fleet, but was hampered by a lack of frigates that could operate as fast scouts. |
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The initial attempt was called off after adverse currents hampered the assault and the element of surprise was lost. |
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By the time the EEA was established, however, several developments hampered its credibility. |
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The study of the major Marathi bhakti tradition and its main deity, Vitthal, has long been hampered by a dearth of critical historical research. |
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Plans for opening a second front in the north were severely hampered when Turkey refused the use of its territory for such purposes. |
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The Allied build up was also hampered by the disordered state of Eastern India at the time. |
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The defensive system they were playing hampered them from going for the juggler. |
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The military campaign was severely hampered by Elizabeth's repeated refusals to send promised funds for her starving soldiers. |
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International competition was initially hampered by a lack of funds and varying rules in different countries. |
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Previous attempts at the strategy were hampered by the poor ability of macrophages to penetrate deep into tumours. |
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The process was further hampered by poor relations between Feirstein and Spottiswoode. |
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It has hampered the flow of capital and added to the sclerotic recovery. |
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Filming finished on 23 June, two months later than planned, which was largely due to the warm Swiss winter, which had hampered shooting. |
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However, the rotation of military personnel among the staff judge advocate offices hampered the continuity of the program. |
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Some other netizens commented snarkily on the continued foreign media blackout in China, and how it has hampered updates about Sandy. |
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A lack of new models has hampered the growth of the brand, which has lagged behind the industry average this year, Socia said in October. |
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In an effort to make them more effective, guns were made ever bigger, although this hampered their ability to reach remote castles. |
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Tunnelling was hampered by much larger quantities of water entering the workings than had been expected. |
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Power struggles between Bedford, his brother Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and their uncle Cardinal Beaufort hampered the English war effort. |
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Crews were combing the wooded, mountainous terrain, hampered by swarming mosquitoes, soupy humidity and mud. |
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Efforts to control the outbreak were hampered by illicit sales of infected meat. |
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O'Connell's campaign was hampered by the limited scope of the franchise in Ireland. |
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Sir Michael Stoute's Peeress was the meat in the sandwich and was also hampered, having to give up third place to P ro clamation. |
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Because of the president's lame duck status, the presidency was often hampered by congressional actions. |
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Their Malaccan rule was severely hampered by administrative and economic difficulties. |
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Yet commercializing these novel therapeutic agents is hampered by industry's inability to obtain large quantities of milk glycan structures. |
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The expeditions were hampered by disease, an inhospitable climate, and a tropical terrain unsuitable for the mounted warfare of the Mongols. |
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French arts had been hampered by the Napoleonic Wars but subsequently developed rapidly. |
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The eight months of bombing never seriously hampered British production and the war industries continued to operate and expand. |
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Since colonialism, African states have frequently been hampered by instability, corruption, violence, and authoritarianism. |
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Fighter sorties had been hampered by bad weather and were limited to coastal patrols. |
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The German advance was hampered by the number of vehicles trying to force their way along the poor road network. |
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Familial TSE are invariably associated with PrPC mutations, and the dearth of genetic modifiers has hampered our understanding of prion diseases. |
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Economic development in the Early modern period was hampered by religious wars, conflicts with the English, epidemics, and storms. |
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But its use as a place of war hampered the development of Cherbourg as major commercial port, compared to Le Havre. |
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The Germans were hampered by poor visibility, in addition to being in an unfavourable tactical position, just as Jellicoe had intended. |
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Only Lion and Princess Royal had settled into formation, so the other four ships were hampered in aiming by their own turning. |
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The exploitation of the Pacific's mineral wealth is hampered by the ocean's great depths. |
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Analysis of the PMS2 gene has historically been hampered by the presence of15 pseudogenes located on the same chromosome. |
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But it was not alone that he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. |
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Attempts to tame the European polecat are generally hampered by the adult's nervous and unsociable disposition. |
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A major cause of this discontent was heavy taxation imposed on the population, while support and guidance from the government was hampered by the size of the Habsburg empire. |
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Future growth is hampered by the airport's location, which is constrained by the M8 motorway to the south, the town of Renfrew to the east and the River Clyde to the north. |
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On 17 June there was torrential rain, which severely hampered movement and had a considerable effect the next day, 18 June, when the Battle of Waterloo was fought. |
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During the major campaigns in New York and Philadelphia, Howe often wrote of the scarcity of adequate provisions, which hampered his ability to mount effective campaigns. |
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Other severe medical conditions whose treatment is hampered in this way include tuberculosis, leprosy, epilepsy and the common severe bacterial Buruli ulcer. |
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At the Brazilian Grand Prix, Button was hampered in qualifying by a poor choice of tyres in the wet weather and could achieve only fourteenth position. |
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During the 1990s and 2000s, the development of research was hampered by several factors, including corruption, low funding and a considerable brain drain. |
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They compare more favourably with firms from lower middle income countries, but are hampered by inadequate governance arrangements and infrastructure. |
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While the work was continued by his executors, the project suffered a number of setbacks and was hampered by harsh weather and several serious floods. |
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The clinical development of curcumin, that has been shown to act on a pleiotropy of targets, has been hampered by its very low oral bioavailability and absorption. |
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Soviet partisans during World War II, especially those active in Belarus, effectively harassed German troops and significantly hampered their operations in the region. |
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While the Allied fighters were moderately successful in protecting the ground and sea forces from aerial bombing, they were hampered by operating far from their home bases. |
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The club's trip to Scotland was hampered by windy conditons, with mackerel, wrasse and pollack proving elusive, though members did catch good numbers of codling to about 6lb. |
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On the southern perimeter the Germans broke in again and could not be forced back, the defence being hampered by fifth columnists sniping from the town. |
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The battlefield still looks much as it probably did at the time of the battle, but the burn and marsh which so badly hampered the Scots advance is now drained. |
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The efforts of Vasco da Gama to get favourable trading conditions were hampered by the low value of their goods, compared with the valuable goods traded there. |
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The Mediacast system is designed to guarantee delivery of broadcasted files, even to receiving devices hampered by weak or intermittent broadcast signals. |
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Had Bacon been able to repeat the bombardments at short intervals, the damage would have soon severely hampered German naval operations from the Flanders coast. |
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Many of these, particularly those of the English Red, were hampered by damage and lagged behind, leaving Almonde and Ashby closer to the French by the end of the day. |
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The French were able to close up during the day, but Tourville was hampered by his efforts to save his flagship, Soleil Royal, which was in a pitiable condition. |
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His return to the stage was in a production of King Lear, which was badly hampered by costumes and scenery by Isamu Noguchi that the critics found ludicrous. |
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Turing tried out for the 1948 British Olympic team, hampered by an injury. |
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Operation Menace failed, hampered by fog and misinformation about the extent of the town's defences, and the British forces withdrew on 26 September. |
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He then left the convoy to return to port, but severe storms hampered him. |
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Forcing her clawed forepaws to be still, she tried to concentrate on the room, hampered by her otterish vision, with its different field of view and lack of color. |
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Integration of global health concerns into foreign policy may be hampered by approaches that are shaped by the overarching roles of defense and diplomacy. |
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Development of a corporate identity for the organisation was hampered by the competing ambitions of the British Transport Commission and the Railway Executive. |
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Following Khmer Rouge's destruction, Cambodia's national reconstruction would be severely hampered and Vietnam would suffer a punitive Chinese attack. |
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Indeed, the physical confines behind the crest of Ambion Hill, combined with a difficulty of communications, probably physically hampered any attempt he made to join the fray. |
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Although Brodessa hung left and hampered Mystagogue over a furlong out, the stewards concluded the manoeuvre neither improved his placing nor involved a riding offence. |
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