Word: hamper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...possible to receive honors, and since students take approximately half of their courses in their concentration department, departments would have an incentive to inflate their grades. As a result, though this plan was intended to fight grade inflation at the same time as reducing honors, it might actually hamper the College’s efforts to counter grade inflation...
...there are other instincts at work that hamper Bush's role as an honest broker in the region. Each was found, forged and hailed in the aftermath of September. But none is helpful...
...mission” may be, perhaps the editorial staff is a bit too stiff and dated to remember and appreciate the significance of collegiate life outside of the classroom. The experience of competing with an athletic team or playing in an orchestra or writing for a newspaper does not hamper our liberal arts education, but rather enhances and intensifies...
Several prints on display focused on children, and these ring with the greatest honesty perhaps because the subjects seem completely unaware of the camera’s gaze. In one striking scene, several grade schoolers labor to push a hamper up a dirtied urban avenue. Despite the squalor of the surroundings, their impish smiles and doubled-over laughter show that the activity is more of a game than a chore. In a careful composition, the children’s clothes pick up colors in the graffiti and painted residences in the background, suggesting a unity with their surroundings...
...Cook says that with new advances in stem cell research, it may not be long before there is a cure for infertility—so long as the politicization of the issue doesn’t hamper researchers...