On the contrary, their temptation lay the other way; they have been always so bent on using the authority and mechanism of government to impair or suppress the influence of their adversaries, whom they regarded as at the same time the adversaries of the State, that they could only wish that authority to be larger and that mechanism more perfect than they already were.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
That bee she has in her bonnet about Evie's being jealous of her does not, I am glad to say, impair her business efficiency.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
The influences that were at work in his earlier years were evidently those that made him subsequently the bulwark against materialistic tendencies in biology, and yet did not impair his originality.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh