Use "encumber" in a sentence

1. Partly, it was because she knew they could move quicker the less encumbered they were

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2. other two are encumbered with very few who have not been educated at their own

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3. “The Education one, when Miss James joined the junior school the rule was she should not be encumbered with a child for at least three years

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4. Neither you nor this ship is encumbered by the physical matter of space

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5. And even after they had ceased those ‘enlightenment’ tours, they still remained in his head, under his skin, hardly even encumbered by the ever vigilant protection of the B’tari

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6. An individual encumbered by circumstance(s) or events seemingly beyond his or her control, may perhaps attribute such misfortunes to bad luck or ―assignable‖ causes although that individual may (otherwise) lack the (necessary) predicates to properly manage his or her life in a manner that might (otherwise) improve his or her (material) standing, not to mention spiritual well-being

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7. The further removed from time and space from some noteworthy event, but not so far as to reduce that event to an historical footnote, but far enough to allow the passage of time to ease a society‘s (collective) anxieties; future generations, no longer encumbered by such matters of immediate concern(s), will be in a better position to place these (historical) events in proper perspective, hindered as they might otherwise have been by contemporary currents or personal biases indigenous to the time(s) these historical events took place; that is to say, by being too close to the ―action‖

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8. the process may find itself encumbered by any number of unintended consequences or competing designs operating within that (social) environment…

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9. I would like to propose a hypothetical question to the progressive reader: If given a choice, which of the following options would you choose: having been created in God‘s (own) Image or having descended from the apes? Should you choose the former, how come so many of you are willing to embrace evolutionary arguments that have been widely discredited rather than entertain the Divine Wisdom of scriptural teachings that offer a more plausible explanation for our existence? Why restrict your beliefs to worldly perceptions or ideas encumbered by the limits of your (finite) senses rather than explore the wondrous miracle of the human imagination, both moral and intellectual, or ―a capacity for self-transcendence‖ (Reinhold Niebuhr) uncommon among the Beast?

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10. accustomed to living without the aid of sight that they do not feel encumbered without the

11. As Kinnard moved off the cart-tail like a man in a dream, he grabbed him with his left hand, encumbered though it was by the blanket, dragging him behind the cart and dropping him at his feet

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12. The Morphozoid eyed the encumbered minotaurs and firbolgs with apprehension

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13. So encumbered was his mind that at first he was not aware of a vehicle driving close behind him

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14. There were primal urges of sex then encumbered his psyche; yet he tried to maintain his composure, knowing that the main reason he came was one more linked to emotion than physical contact

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15. While watching Jose double over, he could feel the burning sensation that encumbered his lungs, from holding his breath so long

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16. the bonds that had encumbered him

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17. company is fixated on a specific method of “doing things”, or encumbered by a limited

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18. Neither pride nor honor encumbered their performance of the most horrific atrocities and

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19. After a moment of stupor and confusion, the leader of the patrol then ordered his men to follow Nancy but, being encumbered by the weight of their bronze armor and shields, were quickly outdistanced by her and the three fugitives

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20. Beyond that, a horary horoscope is completely centered in the now moment, is less encumbered by personal history (yours or the clients’), and is usually prompted by a strong desire for an answer; which makes it easier to tune into than a natal chart, where there are all sorts of themes and crosscurrents of emotion going on which have to be sorted out

21. Begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense

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22. It is at present encumbered by bad science and caricatured by bad economics and the more convinced we are of this, the less disposed we shall be to stake the existence of our faith on superstitions which are the religion of the religious and the science of the unscientific

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23. We’d had a few simple conversations on the phone and via text outside of work, but this was our first official date, and I hoped we wouldn’t be encumbered by too many awkward silences and uncomfortable moments

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24. surface gasping and struck out wildly, encumbered by his

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25. Encumbered asset : An asset or property on which there could be legal claims

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26. encumbered by nothing, it would seem, but the need to remain above the earth

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27. encumbered by few, if any, illusions

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28. At the moment the leader was encumbered and weaker, except that he had a rifle and they only had swords

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29. Many of the students with whom I worked came to me labeled if not encumbered with some diagnosis of mental or emotional difference

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30. Is it not that we are propagating both abroad and at home a Christianity which is half paralyzed in its two chief forces of hope and fear through the perversions of an unbiblical theology? We fail in thoroughly presenting God's love to the nations,—a love strong enough to melt even Chinese arrogance, and to develop the belief of a real and personal God among Chinese Buddhists,—because we have encumbered, Christianity with a doctrine of hell, so unjust, so indiscriminate, so hardening in its frightful propositions, that men’s consciences refuse to receive it

31. So much more wicked and distracted had the Revolution grown in that December month, that the rivers of the South were encumbered with the bodies of the violently drowned by night, and prisoners were shot in lines and squares under the southern wintry sun

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32. Her fortune was large, and our family estate much encumbered

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33. Encumbered by his rifle, and, perhaps, not sustained by so deep an interest in the captive as his companions, the scout suffered the latter to precede him a little, Uncas, in his turn, taking the lead of Heyward

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34. But the impetuous young men were rewarded by finding that, encumbered with Cora, the Hurons were losing ground in the race

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35. You will have no objection, I dare say, to your great expectations being encumbered with that easy condition

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36. pieces of music encumbered the music-stand in the lower room and on his shelves stood two volumes by Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra and The Gay Science

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37. I was going out at the opposite door,—not easy to open now, for the damp wood had started and swelled, and the hinges were yielding, and the threshold was encumbered with a growth of fungus,—when I turned my head to look back

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38. Furthermore, he was not sure he could wade through a mile and a half of water and mud so encumbered

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39. The huge horses were slow to start, encumbered as they were by riders in full plate armour

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40. Sitting up, he could just see the motor-car in the pond, nearly submerged; the gentlemen and the driver, encumbered by their long coats, were floundering helplessly in the water

41. It was only a fifty-foot walk—but they were encumbered and had to pass through a shooting gallery, including right past where Brady, Conklin, and I were standing

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42. Thus, a company that is less encumbered tends to be freer to invest in assets lacking high quality

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43. In integrated steel and aluminum companies; in many electric utilities, because they may be encumbered with inordinately large capital expenditures requirements (an example of encumbrances that are not disclosed in accounting statements)

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44. For example, an emphasis on financial position could prevent one from investing in airline equities, because of a belief that the industry is dangerously financed (an example of on-balance-sheet liabilities) and would be even if re-equipment programs were modified; in integrated steel and aluminum companies; in many electric utilities, because they may be encumbered with inordinately large capital expenditures requirements (an example of encumbrances that are not disclosed in accounting statements); and in labor-intensive companies with large pension-plan obligations (an example of off-balance-sheet liabilities that are disclosed in financial statement footnotes)

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45. Thus, the case is instructive because it demonstrates how insiders used the financial strength inherent in a profitable, almost debt-free business as a basis for extracting maximum cash for themselves, with the result that the successor business became heavily encumbered

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46. If Kutuzov decided to retreat along the road from Krems to Olmutz, to unite with the troops arriving from Russia, he risked being forestalled on that road by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides

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47. I have been one of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous

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48. This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied his wants

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49. Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of the Sergeant of Waterloo, one evening in the spring of 1818, would certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who had passed that way

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50. The Dutch, mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From VertCoucou to Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction of Brussels, according to the testimony of eyewitnesses who are still alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives

51. The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of this Marche-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,—this daring rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel

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52. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret

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53. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, resolute, ardent man, the bold defier of fate, the brain which erected future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog

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54. The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table

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55. As for cleaning out,—that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which encumbered rather than swept away

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56. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle after the joys of the preceding evening

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57. That time, however, did gradually come, forwarded by an affection on his side as warm as her own, and much less encumbered by refinement or self-distrust

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58. If the old bird profited by this occasional habit through being enabled to emigrate earlier or through any other cause; or if the young were made more vigorous by advantage being taken of the mistaken instinct of another species than when reared by their own mother, encumbered as she could hardly fail to be by having eggs and young of different ages at the same time, then the old birds or the fostered young would gain an advantage

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59. The streets are encumbered with furniture and other wares; on all sides one hears the songs of drunken soldiers and the shouts of the pillagers fighting among themselves

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60. Piles of burned rubbish marked where the streets had stood, and the ruins were encumbered with the bodies of men and animals

61. The estate was considerably encumbered with debts; creditors turned up on all sides, and the prince, in spite of all advice and entreaty, insisted upon managing all matters of claim himself—which, of course, meant satisfying everybody all round, although half the claims were absolutely fraudulent

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62. If there are something like musical commencements, these commencements are so short, so encumbered with complications of harmony and orchestration and with effects of contrast, are so obscure and unfinished, and what is happening on the stage meanwhile is so abominably false, that it is difficult even to perceive these musical snatches, let alone to be infected by them

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63. If Kutúzov decided to retreat along the road from Krems to Olmütz, to unite with the troops arriving from Russia, he risked being forestalled on that road by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides

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64. Let me entreat them to pause and reflect, before they inflict a wound on their country's interest, under the influence of constitutional doubt; and if they err, I would ask them, would it not be more safe and patriotic to err in favor of the people? Permit me now, sir, to redeem this subject from the constitutional difficulties with which it has been encumbered

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65. Cheves) has complained he has had to meet this subject encumbered with much error and many prejudices; among which is the idea that a naval system is prejudicial to civil liberty

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