I don't think that most of us who are trying to write music today think from moment to moment, "Is this serial, is this tonal?" We can't work with those reference points or we would be too encumbered to move on.
As a cheerful young man carrying three full grocery bags plus a wiggly toddler passes through the lobby, a neighbor calls, "Hey, I saw you on 'Law and Order' last night!" Too encumbered to lift a hand or even turn his head, the young man turns once completely around and beams.
He dismissed concern of a so-called heckler's veto -- in which Iran, fattened by sanctions relief, might feel encumbered to walk away from the agreement if the U.S. were to go after it for activities like regional destabilization and terrorist sponsorship.
Healthcare's perverse incentives and an accompanying stifling bureaucracy driven by encumbering day-to-day healthcare with insurance has caused hyperinflation that is crushing family, employer and government budgets and holding back job growth.
There are legislations encumbering manufacturers to incorporate environmental factors into their decisions in several industries.
Household clustering and the difficulty of establishing exact virus exposures have encumbered efforts to investigate possible human-to-human transmission (5 ).
By contrast very little (∼5%) of the expected Michael adducts were observed in either case with compound 16, suggesting that the tight steric limitation around the alkene may be due to the inability of sterically encumbered compounds to act as Michael acceptors.
61 This study further suggested that those factors were not serving as risks alone, but also encumbering the access to HIV/AIDS services, which inevitably created a vicious cycle of the HIV/AIDS situation in migrants.
Either the size and weight of the sensors have been too great to avoid encumbering the robot or, if they were small and light enough, they were too complicated to manufacture routinely.
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.
