Sentence examples for the encumbrance from inspiring English sources

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the encumbrance

noun

Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.

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America would free itself of the encumbrance of formal alliances and multilateral diplomacy.

In the latter stages of this tournament, Bangladesh alone have had the encumbrance that stubbornness has given England.

"What's wrong with the midlevel exception -- any exception for that matter -- without the encumbrance of a luxury tax?" he said.

(It was Balanchine who proved that bodies moving to music without the encumbrance of stories or sets can be the most exciting thing of all).

He and his supporters saw Russia as a slumbering giant with a future of enormous potential if the encumbrance of the other Soviet republics was removed.

Clearly, Yeltsin wished to rid Russia of the encumbrance of the Soviet Union and to seek the disbandment of that body.

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"It's teaching without the encumbrances and distractions of tenure," Mr. Hauber says.

When he began running for president, he left his past behind, along with the encumbrances that go with it.

It can jump off a helicopter and set up in a field mess hall without the encumbrances of amplifiers, microphones and speakers.

It is skimming the most committed families from the public school population, they say, and operating without the encumbrances of a system that receives government funds.

That has allowed him to say truthfully that he is free of the encumbrances that come with taking money from others.

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