"encumbrance to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to express something that hinders or burdens someone or something. Example: "Her fear of failure was an encumbrance to her success." This means that her fear of failure was hindering her from achieving success. Another example: "The heavy bags were an encumbrance to my journey." This means that the heavy bags were hindering or making the journey difficult for me.
WASP-dom, an encumbrance to the fully realized emotional life, we have heard.
Lord St. John said the new activism was becoming an encumbrance to managers.
But in the meantime, Miller manages to be integral to the Nuggets' success and a sometimes awkward encumbrance to Karl's preferred style.
It's charming how she negotiates this encumbrance to reprise much of her opening solo, full of fluid rolling on and off the floor.
The greatest obstacle to this state of perfection is, of course, the poor, whose demands upon the state have always been seen as an encumbrance to its sublime mechanism.
The name has been precis'd from Karachi Social Club, while a huge publicity shot of Stein is the only encumbrance to walls of purest cream, though whether by design or the effect of time and cooking is unclear.
Then maybe we can get back to talking honestly about the true encumbrances to Obama's agenda.
At Lloyds, the stated reason for the same feature was to make way for The Room, the immense space connected by escalators where most of the underwriters' business was done; in Newport, it was to reduce encumbrances to a complex production line.
Given that sensibility, it shouldn't come as a surprise when we see the men as well as the women in one section of Mr. Kylian's "Arcimboldo" don misshapen black tutus that look like wind-sprung umbrellas and slip in and out of these encumbrances to selections from Bach's noble suites for unaccompanied cello, waggling their tongues on the trills.
Secondly, grasslands in the region limited encumbrances to livestock during grazing because they have a relatively high grass cover compared to the tree cover (see Figure 2a).
From the CTIA: 'We agree with the Assistant Secretary that adding any encumbrances to the auction will lead to lower revenues.
