Kept back, hampered

Usage examples of hindered.

After all, it was Israel that hindered the Iraqi nuclear program throughout the 1970s, eventually bombing the Osiraq reactor in 1981.

The whole expression of his face told her that he had not forgotten the morning's talk, that his decision remained in force, and only the presence of visitors hindered his speaking of it to her now.

Everything: a carriage passing rapidly in the street, a summons to dinner, the maid's inquiry what dress to prepare, or worse still any word of insincere or feeble sympathy, seemed an insult, painfully irritated the wound, interrupting that necessary quiet in which they both tried to listen to the stern and dreadful choir that still resounded in their imagination, and hindered their gazing into those mysterious limitless vistas that for an instant had opened out before them.

Besides this feeling which absorbed her altogether and hindered her from following the details of her husband's plans, thoughts that had no connection with what he was saying flitted through her mind.

Postulating some generalization as the goal of the movement of humanity, the historians study the men of whom the greatest number of monuments have remained: kings, ministers, generals, authors, reformers, popes, and journalists, to the extent to which in their opinion these persons have promoted or hindered that abstraction.

Not a cloud hindered the sun's brutal rays, and not a wisp of a breeze came to offer any relief.

Sometimes he found himself grasping with fingertips and pulling himself forward, his feet dangling, but Drizzt was not hindered, and he did not make a sound.

Of course, his role in the meeting was minor hindered, so Sharlotta had explained to the other guildmasters, by the fact that he was very old and not in good health.

The dwarf was anxious to find his lost son, and woe to any who hindered him on that road.

With a snap of their clawed, bat like wings, in no wise hindered by their lack of legs, they spun their long-necked bodies around to loom over Pha­raun.

I may not possess the power of sight, but that has never hindered me as I sought my prey.

In their place, cold pools of standing water dotted the streets and hindered traffic.

For will any one of good sense approve of my being whipped because, as a boy, I played ball, and so was hindered from learning quickly those lessons by means of which, as a man, I should play more unbecomingly?

What did all this profit me, seeing it even hindered me, when, imagining that whatsoever existed was comprehended in those ten categories, I tried so to understand, O my God, Thy wonderful and unchangeable unity as if Thou also hadst been subjected to Thine own greatness or beauty, so that they should exist in Thee as their subject, like as in bodies, whereas Thou Thyself art Thy greatness and beauty?

Finally, in the very fever of my irresolution, I made many of those motions with my body which men sometimes desire to do, but cannot, if either they have not the limbs, or if their limbs be bound with fetters, weakened by disease, or hindered in any other way.