While the result was a victory for the British, the massive losses they encumbered discouraged them from any further sorties against the siege lines; 226 men were killed with over 800 wounded, including a large number of officers.
They could encumber and build up their own piece of the Ugandan dream, and grow assets, equity and a net worth, which can later be passed on to their equally enterprising children.
There was an uproar when local officials allowed the removal of 400 trees in the area south of the 10 Freeway because they would encumber the passage of the hulking space shuttle Endeavor as it was towed through streets to the California Science Center.
As far as he could see, he was cock of the walk: many of the men in Sunset suffered from diseases that Horace had so far escaped, or they were not as good-looking or as thin, or they were encumbered by wives they loved.
"People stay in hotels and, in some sense, get away from the stress they're encumbered by in their normal home environment," Mr. Dunnam said.
Worse, they were encumbered with an election manifesto written in the belief that it would not have to be implemented and so promising a host of reforms that no prudent finance minister would want to pay for.
The director, Marleen Gorris, and the screenwriter, Peter Berry, made an admirable attempt to bring the novel's story of a recessive chess genius to life, but they were encumbered by the same problems that Nabokov himself faced with the novel: trying to make interesting and sympathetic a character who is wrapped up, to the exclusion of all else, in a recondite game.
But, like other large companies, they are encumbered by the weight of their own bureaucracy to effect Web development quickly.
The problem with many of those is that they are encumbered by patents so it may be a while before we will see Mozilla support those (if ever).
Any female who departed from this rule was penalized, even if tails had already become so long that they actually encumbered males possessing them.
