Sentence examples for were encumbered by from inspiring English sources

While the enemy were encumbered by reason of the burdens which they were carrying, he orders a sally to be made suddenly from two gates [of the camp].

The first HAART regimens worked in suppressing virus, but were encumbered by a variety of short term and long term side effects.

More often, lobbies were encumbered by the meretricious ornamentation that developers, both past and present, seem to think will attract buyers.

Slipper chairs were originally intended as low-to-the-ground seating for well-to-do women of the Victorian era who were encumbered by corsets and petticoats and needed a convenient place to sit while putting on stockings and slippers.

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.

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.

Black is encumbered by no such constraints.

They should not be encumbered by a mischievous referendum law.

"Certainly we are encumbered by a shortage of energy".

This was photography's childhood, and it was encumbered by limitations.

He was capable of retaining what he wanted from his roots without being encumbered by them".