At the same time, his governorship was encumbered by the state's enormous budget deficit, which ballooned to $26 billion in 2009.
In the Brexit case, the European Union, originally established to prevent another European war like World War I and II, has shown itself ineffective in managing the recent Eurozone debt and refugee crises, while encumbering member states with sometimes silly regulations.
China needs a developed insurance industry now more than ever as the country tries to shift the burden of cradle-to-grave benefits away from its over-encumbered state enterprises, half of them only breaking even or losing money.
But as much as he was encumbered by the diseased state of his body, Chekhov was repulsed by the diseased state around him — by the sickness of the body politic.
Lincoln could do all sorts of things, as indeed could Franklin Roosevelt; in their day, the ship of state was not encumbered by the psychology of "entitlement".
This is the situation that arises in many applications and it also enables handling the question of changes in relative degree, without having to be encumbered by the change in state space dimension as the parameters change.
Judgments of this kind should be made by academicians, not by federal judges, and their standards for decision should not be encumbered with ambiguous phrases like "compelling state interest". Widmar v. Vincent, 454 U.S. 263, 278-279 (1981) (STEVENS, J., concurring in judgment) (footnotes omitted).
But most of banking remains in a time warp, state run and union encumbered.
Old Figure 4 (now 5) shows equilibrium binding data for two ATP-hydrolysis defective mutants in panels A and C (K270A and K270R); equilibrium data with ATP can unquestionably be obtained for these two mutant proteins, and the interpretation of those binding data will not be encumbered with the complexities of steady-state ATP hydrolysis.
The transportion projects, which are expected to take three to five years to complete, could still be encumbered by the numerous federal agencies and state and local officials who have some say over how the money is used.
Far freer than most states in the Arab world, but encumbered by a political elite drawn in large part from aging chieftains who fought the civil war, Lebanon, by nearly everyone's account, is in transition.
