Sentence examples for encumbers from inspiring English sources

Government influence over technology invariably slows down innovation, favours powerful players, increases costs and encumbers engineering with political squabbles.

Twentieth-century adaptations swung in the opposite direction: in Mario Zafred's Amleto (1961) or Frank Martin's Der Sturm (1956), the parlando music encumbers Shakespeare's words; literal readings by Reynaldo Hahn (1935) and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1961) have resulted in two disproportionately lengthy versions of The Merchant of Venice.

In 1911, he denounced "horrible and staid Love that encumbers the march of man and prevents him from transcending his own humanity".

Regrettably, Shell, presumably striving for some textual equivalent of a stutter, encumbers his work with labored puns ("how gags gag"), odd catchphrases ("talk the walk or walk the talk"), and the modish deconstruction of words ("dis-ease," "dis-ability").

Critics charge it encumbers H.P., particularly at a time of rapid change.

Nor is this all, for while the maker of television documentaries has the means of recording with great precision what appears in front of his cameras, the very equipment that enables him to do this also encumbers him in his attempt to depict every situation truly.

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.

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.

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.

Why encumber themselves with this pushy, opinionated, conceited, publicity-seeking soixante-huitard (sixty-eighter)—and a German, to boot?