Sentence examples similar to great encumbrance from inspiring English sources

Agricultural sustainability may represent the greatest encumbrance to increasing food production.

It whispers in our ear that Italy's great beauty could become a great burden, an intimidating, consoling, reassuring, energy-sapping encumbrance.

However, when we consider the encumbrance of noncoding DNA in each of these C. reinhardtii compartments, we conclude that introns in the mtDNA impose a greater burden than those in the nuclear DNA and suggest that the same may be true for the intergenic regions.

The peacock's tail, a flamboyant example of sexual selection, is a costly encumbrance of no help at all to physical survival, but of great value in seducing peahens.

Incumbency has become an electoral encumbrance.

Yaghdan's résumé was an encumbrance.

An exquisite shot became an encumbrance.

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.

Sansom's production has one encumbrance.

ELDs are nothing a minor technological encumbrance at most.

Remember an encumbrance is not an expense.