Sentence examples for Encumber from inspiring English sources

The American government called for grants rather than loans to finance Iraq's recovery so as not to encumber future Iraqi generations, and the same principle applies even more emphatically for impoverished Africa.

Why encumber themselves with this pushy, opinionated, conceited, publicity-seeking soixante-huitard (sixty-eighter)—and a German, to boot?

Postulators hardly make a fortune, but that probably makes them all the more protective of their arcane skill-set.Anyway, setting a fixed price-list for sainthood services isn't just a free gift to tabloid headline writers; it's one small step in the process of reining the vast and self-serving bureaucratic interests that surround and encumber the Vatican.

Doubters encumber him: some, by his own magnanimous admission, say he is "too serious" and "fight[s] too hard".

Despite the death knell sounded throughout the media, most people and most banks did not encumber themselves with mountains of unsecured debt.

A fiction is often used to get around the provisions of constitutions and legal codes that legislators are hesitant to change or to encumber with specific limitations.

"The government's loan will un-encumber the ILC from the crippling impact of an existing debt that is diverting resources from its core business of supporting the economic aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians," said Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion, who added the resort had become an "incubator" of Indigenous employment.

Michele Bachmann was able to reach her high-water mark without being unduly encumbered by her gender; nor was she advantageously buoyed by it.

Need either writer have so encumbered us with the detail of their wives' bodily failures?As to intent, Mr Kondracke's Milly was "a master of her universe", "a dynamo" who got him into Alcoholics Anonymous and off drink.

This weakness will affect international calculations about how much pressure to put on Mr Aliev.The second reason is the president's successful projection of a self-image as a good mini-tsar encumbered with bad advisers.

A relatively short stint as director of "vision" (the corporation's top TV job) means that he is less encumbered than others by previous decisions.