Sentence examples for to encumbered from inspiring English sources

It's the latter, of course, and this time the company is picking the meat off the bones of Bizet's Carmen: that stony-faced chap on the door of the King's Head, so obliging to encumbered customers, is law-abiding Don José, as unimpressed by the table-top temptress as he is keen to keep his job.

"You have too much life ahead to encumber your most important asset".

"Any effort to encumber a clean moratorium right now would slow it down and possibly kill it," Mr. Barr said.

But many older people are reluctant to encumber their houses, said Ms. Cutts, the economist at Freddie Mac.

A fiction is often used to get around the provisions of constitutions and legal codes that legislators are hesitant to change or to encumber with specific limitations.

"To encumber a drug like this is extremely unusual for the F.D.A.," said Dr. Wendy Chavkin, a professor of public health at Columbia University.

Mr. Shankman, who has just left the company, said Enron was special because it "didn't have a corporate hierarchy to encumber creativity".

The American government called for grants rather than loans to finance Iraq's recovery so as not to encumber future Iraqi generations, and the same principle applies even more emphatically for impoverished Africa.

This, I fear (and I think he fears) is turning out to be Charles Moore's problem as biographer … [the book] tends to encumber rather than enlighten, and in doing so diminish.

During that conversation, you could inquire about the propriety of a school hoarding its vast endowment while forcing 18-year-olds to encumber themselves with $100,000 worth of debt.

"If the deal fell apart, the lender could be viewed as liable for allowing the borrower to encumber himself with so much debt," said Eric P. Declercq, a regional vice president for Countrywide Home Loans, a California-based company with 30 lending offices in the New York area.