Sentence examples for encumber itself from inspiring English sources

The quote, from a 1944 opinion by Justice Felix Frankfurter in a tax case, is usually offered to mean that the court shouldn't encumber itself by declaring solutions to problems that have yet to emerge.

Well, for all this, it's got punch and narrative pizzazz: a strong, clear, instantly graspable storyline that doesn't encumber itself with character complexity, and the cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle is tremendous.

Circumstances change; no polity should encumber itself with limitations and prohibitions permanently; the best safeguard for liberty is that anything questionable in light of it should only ever be temporary, if it must be enacted at all.

And it has managed this feat without encumbering itself with the hefty debts that characterise the balance sheets of most football teams in Europe.

Microsoft has so much raw potential, but it needs extreme leadership to break out of the bureaucratic morass it encumbered itself with," says the book's foreword, written by "Mini-Microsoft", an anonymous blogger-cum-employee who is required reading for Microsoft watchers.If Microsoft has made one excellent hire in recent years, it is Mr Ozzie.

Down in the thick of the valley, the river seemed to be slowly choking itself, encumbered by brush, twisting this way and that, hiding its true extent in bogs and alders.

Assuming United can meet all the challenges, it will then find itself encumbered with huge amounts of debt -- $7.3 billion in debt and lease obligations from US Airways alone -- obligations that could threaten its financial viability if the economy were to slide into recession sometime in 2001, the year the airline has said it expects the deal to close.

It is not uncommon to see legislation introduced in Congress that, as soon as it is introduced, finds itself encumbered with seemingly irrelevant provisions.

But this new book, which moves from 1901 to Roosevelt's departure from office in 1909, is unavoidably encumbered by the presidency itself, forcing Mr. Morris to incorporate into his narrative the wide array of complex, unrelated matters with which any president -- especially one this omnivorous in his interests -- must deal.

"So we encumber their own art".

Mortality Itself: Itself.