However, police operations continue to be hampered by inadequate resources.

Reconstruction was hampered and the forthcoming elections would also be compromised.

Wilders disagrees. No criticism of Islam, however offensive, should ever be hampered by political correctness.

The quality of country programmes of cooperation will be seriously hampered if this trend continues.

Visits to their clients had to be coordinated at least two weeks in advance and could be hampered by closures or delays at checkpoints.

When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

Equality in education seemed to be hampered by high drop out rates among girls, traditional stereotypes and a shortage of teachers.

The inalienable right of access to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy continued to be hampered by unilateral restrictions on nuclear related exports.

These problems hampered healthy economic development, posing a threat to global security.

The investigation of cases was hampered by the fact that victims often withdrew their complaints and the investigation had to be terminated.

Consequently glutaraldehyde fixation on thicker tissue samples may be hampered, but this problem can be overcome by reducing the size of the tissue sample.

This senseless political warfare has hampered cross strait economic relations.

Their daily lives are still hampered by restrictions of movement.

But efforts to tackle health care costs continue to be hampered by widespread reluctance to tackle sensitive issues, as epitomized by the death panel tempest of a year ago.

Although it has been hampered by a wide range of computer problems and other technical difficulties, the program is likely to be operating by sometime in 2014.

The future of European Socialism is also hampered, strangely, by the EU.

However the city's development was hampered by regular major fires and floods.

The demining work itself is greatly hampered by a lack of funds.

Language learning can be severely hampered by cultural attitudes, with a frequently cited example being the difficulty of Navajo children in learning English.

The work of the Executive Task Force on Anti Corruption has also continued to be hampered by the non cooperation of government officials and the lack of resources.

These functions were hampered by a lack of appropriate monitoring and reporting tools.

That tension hampered free food distribution for fear of distorting the local economy.

Their detection has been hampered by the anonymity that computer technology typically provides.

However, the effectiveness of the central security structures is hampered by resource limitations.

Internal divisions and limited capacity have hampered the Transitional Government's ability to decisively move the transition process forward.

Africa recognizes that the consolidation of development will be hampered by internecine conflicts that decimate populations, plunder precious natural resources and destroy already limited infrastructure.

Thus, a change that is in everyone s interest is hampered by lack of coordination.

Nevertheless, the large scale damage had destroyed pre positioned supplies and had hampered access.

Greece s new Socialist government is hampered by campaign promises that suggested the money was there to solve the problems, when in fact things turned out to be far worse than anyone imagined.

That policy hampered the Agency's ability to provide emergency humanitarian assistance and carry out its educational, social and health programmes.

The African countries are hampered in their efforts to combat desertification by conditions that fail to comply with any standard of sustainability.

While China s economy is hampered by structural difficulties, the US is not free of similar challenges.

Krugman is hampered by the fact that he attributes the crash to irrationality, which, as Cochrane points out, is no theory.

Insufficient resources to cover the operational costs have hampered the effective functioning of the Centre and impacted on the staffing situation.

Often, access to these alternative sources was further hampered owing to Israeli closures and checkpoints or settlers' attacks, including harassment, beatings and shootings.

As a result, Inca expansion into the Amazon basin and the Pacific coast of Ecuador was hampered.

The lack of statistics has hampered analysis of the internationalization strategies of developing country enterprises, particularly SMEs.

The deployment of police personnel in the provinces is still hampered by a lack of accommodation, however.

Establishing consistent liaison with the Sudan Liberation Movement Army has been hampered by divisions within the group.

But the Bank is also hampered by worsening resource constraints, as the biggest post crisis capital infusions went to regional development banks.

However, this process is hampered by the fact that plasmas conduct readily along magnetic field lines, but less readily perpendicular to them.

The Kimberley Process certification scheme, established to counter conflict diamonds , is helpful but is still hampered by inadequate controls on the ground.

Their ability to function effectively is however hampered by a lack of communications and transportation between the districts, provincial capitals and Freetown.

Lack of territorial access to the sea, remoteness from world markets and higher transaction costs hampered the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.

Once the tailspin began in 1997, governments lack of reserves hampered their ability to rescue failed banks, forcing them to appeal to international institutions for relief.