Sentence examples for Serious encumbrance from inspiring English sources

The proliferation of patents might prove a serious encumbrance to businesses, just as travellers along the Rhine in medieval Europe were slowed down by having to pay a toll at every castle.James Boyle, a legal scholar at Duke Law School in North Carolina, claims that the current increase in intellectual-property rights represents nothing less than a second "enclosure movement".

But a cat that throws up on the bed would be a dangerous encumbrance.

Incumbency has become an electoral encumbrance.

Yaghdan's résumé was an encumbrance.

An exquisite shot became an encumbrance.

Sansom's production has one encumbrance.

ELDs are nothing a minor technological encumbrance at most.

To Mr. Dover, Mr. Aston was a weighty professional encumbrance.

Remember an encumbrance is not an expense.

Researchers must foresee third-party consent as a major encumbrance.

WASP-dom, an encumbrance to the fully realized emotional life, we have heard.