Sentence examples for encumber the from inspiring English sources

Asked why he had omitted Trinidad, he said that he feared it would "encumber the tribute".

Lombardo, who teaches classics at the University of Kansas, has also sliced out some of the repetitive passages that encumber the original Greek.

It does not encumber the hand, does not intrude on most manual tasks, moves easily in front of the eyes and is easier to reach than, say, the ankle.

That each of our bodies is sovereign, to be governed as we so choose, without the interference of government, so long as our individual choices don't impede or encumber the liberty of others.

Mr. Olson told the court that the Ninth Circuit's rule went beyond any Supreme Court precedent and would greatly encumber the government's ability to negotiate guilty pleas, which are responsible for 95percentt of all federal convictions.

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.

"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.

He encumbered the process.

Uncomfortable clothing, with tight bodices and sleeves that encumbered the hands, was considered a status symbol.

So encumbered, the Postal Service lost more than $1 billion in each of the last two years.

"Slowly, desparatly slowly, the remains of passage debris that encumbered the lower part of the doorway was removed.