I am too encumbered and I don't think you should be so encumbered as you reach the horizon of your life".
The American government called for grants rather than loans to finance Iraq's recovery so as not to encumber future Iraqi generations, and the same principle applies even more emphatically for impoverished Africa.
Why encumber themselves with this pushy, opinionated, conceited, publicity-seeking soixante-huitard (sixty-eighter)—and a German, to boot?
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.
Doubters encumber him: some, by his own magnanimous admission, say he is "too serious" and "fight[s] too hard".
Despite the death knell sounded throughout the media, most people and most banks did not encumber themselves with mountains of unsecured debt.
A fiction is often used to get around the provisions of constitutions and legal codes that legislators are hesitant to change or to encumber with specific limitations.
The novelist or the poet may well use nonfictional prose to purge his own anger, to give vent to his vituperation against his confrères, and to relieve his imagination of all the ideological burden that might otherwise encumber it.
Apologetics are the enemy of art criticism, and the conservative critic has the advantage of distance from the ideological passions that can encumber jazz: not everything has to be seen as an allegory of persecution and salvation — there are just good and worse musicians and music.
Asked why he had omitted Trinidad, he said that he feared it would "encumber the tribute".
But professional football players — mainly receivers and defensive backs who rely on quickness, but some linemen, too — have a finely tuned sense of their bodies and are convinced that even plastic shells less than a quarter-inch thick and a few inches wide encumber them.
