Word: inhibitive
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...legislators on both sides of the political spectrum advocated tightening the visa-approval process for foreign students hoping to study in the U.S.—particularly those from countries like China, which has high immigration rates. This sparked an outcry from academics, who said such a policy would inhibit their ability to conduct research...
...meeting, residents also expressed concerns that Harvard’s presence in this area would greatly inhibit their own access to the river, destroying the current “democracy...
...idea that the separation of powers envisioned under the Constitution is endangered by hybrid officials like the Comptroller. They contend that the existing system of checks and balances is sufficiently vigorous to keep any one branch from dominating the others, and that to insist always on ironclad divisions would inhibit the flexible assignment of Government functions. Far more worrisome to many legal observers is the possibility that the court might invalidate Gramm-Rudman on the broad ground that only officials who can be removed by the President should exercise Executive powers, a ruling that they say could jeopardize the independence...
...provides immense support for concerts, which reflects the efforts of these schools to improve the quality of student life. Under our current system, no matter how hard the UC and HCC work, if the College doesn’t provide more administrative and financial support, it will continue to inhibit the ability to produce large concerts,” said Glazer. And though the College often blames the UC for not allocating its funds correctly—focusing too much on student group funding than planning student events—to take from the former to give to the latter...
...seems a shame to inhibit a good ranter. But ranting is not always entertaining. Often it is embarrassing, even shaming. Sometimes, if it issues forth from a politician or religious zealot with ambitions, it becomes sinister. The U.S. has a fairly rich tradition of ranters, from Thomas Paine to Joseph McCarthy to Spiro Agnew (whose ranting was actually a satire on the form) to Louis Farrakhan. A citizen named Peter Muggins caught the essense of the rant in an intense if repetitious letter to Abraham Lincoln: "God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell...