In which other western democracy could a candidate festooned with business encumbrances and legal embarrassments be elected to the highest position in the land?
Otherwise, the seller is liable as guaranteeing transfer of title free from any encumbrances.
Evoking the "immense sentimental value" of the diamond to Pakistan, Mr Bhutto continued: "Its return to Pakistan would be a convincing demonstration of the spirit that moved Britain voluntarily to shed its imperial encumbrances and lead the process of decolonisation".
Last night, Obama had the punchy, self-assured air of a President on a roll, freed of old encumbrances (a narrow, nervous Democratic majority in the Senate) and buoyed by both a big jump in his approval ratings and, most important, a growing economy.
The banks, in their desperation to monetize these encumbrances, had found a clearing price.
And I thought I sensed in Swiss the urge to say what all of us would like to say — that traditions are not just encumbrances, that a novel is not news, that an essay is a different thing from an Internet rant, that techniques are the probity and ethic of magic, the real work.
Eventually, enough of these secret fans grow up and get together, and the writer is designated a Genius, acquiring all the encumbrances of genius: fans, notes, annotated editions, and gently disparaging comprehensive reviews.
"I stayed until I was fifty-eight, when I took early retirement, then I was totally without any encumbrances, and I let myself go.
They have severed ties with their sloppy or otherwise embarrassing parents, and have no need of superfluous emotional encumbrances: they march into illegality with efficient supply lines.
The presence of Podesta was well-calibrated; as former head of the Obama transition team, his role underscores to the Chinese that this issue matters to the President, but he is out of government, so it relieves them of the encumbrances of the Chinese political bureaucracy.
6), which described how researchers are helping companies come up with new products that can help an aging population: As a 79-year-old woman with diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, I am indebted to modern medicine that I don't have to live with the encumbrances of the old-age-simulation suit pictured on the page.
