I found my native Ekehu of much use - invaluable indeed, but the other three rather an encumbrance - I could have made better progress without them; but to Ekehu I owe my life - he is a faithful and attached servant".
"I stayed until I was fifty-eight, when I took early retirement, then I was totally without any encumbrances, and I let myself go.
If you want to be treated as a valued guest, and see true beauty free from the encumbrance of harassment, I would recommend visiting anywhere else.
But Dick had made up his mind: stockings of any shade were unnecessary, an encumbrance, a useless expense ("I've already invested enough money in this operation"), and, after all, anyone they encountered would not live to bear witness.
"I'm absolutely convinced that I am less of an encumbrance to the long-term existence of that piece than pigeon shit is".
When giving seminars to advocates, victims and survivors, I often state, "the biggest encumbrance in the victim freeing herself from domestic violence is that she loves the abuser more than she loves herself".
And I looked on the training analysis as a loathsome, unnecessary encumbrance.
Apart from intrinsic challenges of EEG signal analysis, one of the main obstacles precluding EEG-BCI from being used in patients' daily lives is setup encumbrance.
First off, train travel is the best way to see the countryside, and when you're someone that loves to look at the world--as I do--what better way then being free to do so without the encumbrance of having to drive a car, watch for traffic, et cetera.
My guess is that most parents would share my panic in the face of Buy Buy Baby and then discover, as I did, that even the product that friends insist you must have is actually an encumbrance (and that all your lovingly selected toys pale when the kid discovers he can pull the saucepans out of the cupboard).
Yaghdan's résumé was an encumbrance.
