In part, this is a story of technical debt — that's the concept that over time your applications become encumbered by layers of crusty code, making it harder to update and ever harder to maintain.
Unlike all other forms of insurance designed for rare events, insurance became encumbered in day-to-day healthcare (i.e., we use insurance for the healthcare equivalent of getting one's car tuned up where we wouldn't dream of using insurance).
They let their children become encumbered with levels of debt that are, in some cases, not possible to pay off.
In his journal he wrote "The dogs are admirably trained as retrievers in fowling, and are otherwise useful.....The smooth or short haired dog is preferred because in frosty weather the long haired kind become encumbered with ice on coming out of the water".
Ethical Inquiry is one amid a growing number of classes and programs in American higher education that aim to tackle life's Big Questions at a time before 20-somethings become encumbered by the responsibilities of work and family that seem to take priority over more philosophical pursuits.
With the kind of outreach done at a January town hall meeting and a concerted effort to let people who gave money experience the benefits of the gift, Sinnette said she worried that the funds could become potentially encumbered or the transparency of their use clouded, leaving the community to feel their contributions were being used to shore up budget shortfalls.
Bodanya's wandering lingerie first became visible, encumbering her ankles as she sang Elisetta's lines in the drawing-room scene.
It comes from a pervasive feeling that our institutions have become too sclerotic and encumbered by special interests to serve us.
Without his mind encumbering his body, Turdswallo becomes rich and powerful.
Any female who departed from this rule was penalized, even if tails had already become so long that they actually encumbered males possessing them.
Any female who departed from this rule was penalised, even if tails had already become so long that they actually encumbered males possessing them.
