Sentence examples for encumbrance upon from inspiring English sources

Thus, the economic encumbrance upon local residents is relatively light if Seattle moves to a $15 an hour minimum wage.

In 2013 it was revealed that over half of the salmon farms in Scotland straight-up killed seals that were proving to be an encumbrance upon their livestock usually by shooting them with actual, lead bullets.

The liability to the confraternity, carried as a permanent encumbrance on property, devolved upon all the successive owners of the estate, and the confraternity was usually a party to all litigation involving the estate.

He sighed with relief, as though he'd already cast off old encumbrances and entered upon the simplicities of his new situation.

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.

Incumbency has become an electoral encumbrance.

Yaghdan's résumé was an encumbrance.

An exquisite shot became an encumbrance.

Sansom's production has one encumbrance.

Remember an encumbrance is not an expense.

To Mr. Dover, Mr. Aston was a weighty professional encumbrance.