I am too encumbered and I don't think you should be so encumbered as you reach the horizon of your life".
Michele Bachmann was able to reach her high-water mark without being unduly encumbered by her gender; nor was she advantageously buoyed by it.
Need either writer have so encumbered us with the detail of their wives' bodily failures?As to intent, Mr Kondracke's Milly was "a master of her universe", "a dynamo" who got him into Alcoholics Anonymous and off drink.
This weakness will affect international calculations about how much pressure to put on Mr Aliev.The second reason is the president's successful projection of a self-image as a good mini-tsar encumbered with bad advisers.
A relatively short stint as director of "vision" (the corporation's top TV job) means that he is less encumbered than others by previous decisions.
This is no great surprise, since it is usually the male of any dimorphic species who is encumbered with any expensive ornamentation.
Rail freight is not encumbered by the short-term contracts common in the passenger railway system, which make train companies petrified of strikes and strengthen the hand of drivers' unions.Raw materials have long been moved by rail, but so, these days, are consumer goods.
But whether and how their sums add up is crucial for the Tories, encumbered as they have been for much of the past 20 years by toxic auras of cold-heartedness and incompetence.
Unlike his father, Syria's new president is not encumbered by the personal bitterness left by the ancient schism between the Iraqi and Syrian wings of the Baathist movement.
This is partly because they are starting work later; it is also because many are now encumbered with student debts.
She observes that one disease, called Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, which is caused by a faulty mitochondrial gene, occurs in only 10% of women whose cellular power-packs include the damaged gene, but in 50% of men whose mitochondria are so encumbered.
