Sentence examples for encumber a from inspiring English sources

He seemed unconcerned by the rituals of transference that can encumber a more formal sushi bar.

"Any effort to encumber a clean moratorium right now would slow it down and possibly kill it," Mr. Barr said.

"To encumber a drug like this is extremely unusual for the F.D.A.," said Dr. Wendy Chavkin, a professor of public health at Columbia University.

These added elements can also encumber an already tortuously slow process, the critics say.

If so, is making that point worth encumbering a soprano with a demeaning costume?

The emphasis on objects and materiality, characteristic to the 1970s trend in Korean minimal art, and the underlying rejection to Western modernity embedded in his Eastern philosophy, may have encumbered a wider acknowledgment on the global scale.

Subsequent immigrants had to confirm that no prior claims encumbered a particular watershed before establishing their claim.

Thus, as he asked, 'Why encumber either a birth register, a death register, or even a special register with useless detail?' 69 Dunlop suggested that registration of stillbirths would be 'distinctly objectionable in that it expose[d] to public search and extract … private and intimate detail with which the public [was] not concerned'.

Mr. Monteiro is doing a good job at Blass, especially in the last two seasons, but still, it is a house encumbered with a recent history of failed revivals.

Wiese, experienced as a mountaineer but encumbered by a nine-to-five job, would have merely days.

(She was further encumbered by a whalebone corset and a hat the size of a flying saucer).