(v. t.) To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.
(v. t.) To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.
Example Sentences:
(1) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(2) Genetic analyses of DNA restriction and modification mechanisms have been encumbered by the inability to rigorously select for mutant phenotypes associated with these systems.
(3) John Pugh, a former Lib Dem health spokesman, said: "There is no compelling reason why the NHS in England should be encumbered with this level of bean counting … the NHS should be like other more efficient public services run on simple best-value principles.
(4) Rather than conditions of respect and regard, lesbians report atmospheres of intimidation and humiliation, which encumber their interactions with health care providers.
(5) The drag coefficient was high compared with that of phocid seals examined during gliding or towing experiments, indicating an increased drag encumbered by actively swimming seals.
(6) These burdens all add to the cost of trade and therefore encumber economic growth in developing countries.
(7) Fibroses occurred frequently as a result, which to date encumber nerve adhesive.
(8) Distal osteotomies are encumbered by nonunion problems.
(9) This encumbers research on the psychoanalytic process.
(10) Often children are not discovered by teachers who are overwhelmed by large classes or encumbered with a complicated curriculum.
(11) By contrast, comparison of the time necessary to gain accurate control over individual PTNs from contralateral cortex showed the epileptic monkeys to be significantly encumbered when compared to nonepileptic monkeys.
(12) One major reason is perhaps that the Australian Labor leader is chosen by the party's MPs and not by the more cumbersome but wider democratic process that Labour chose for itself nearly 30 years ago, thus encumbering itself with an institutional inertia factor that hugely benefits incumbents.
(13) Different Therapy of Bromisoval Poisoning and Primary Detoxication by Gastrotomy or Duodenotomy: Bromisoval poisoning is encumbered with a high complication rate and mortality.
(14) Like many US enterprises seeking to push drone technology, Amazon has been encumbered by regulations introduced by the FAA in an attempt to prevent unpiloted drone aircraft from endangering passenger planes and denting America’s unparalleled global reputation for air safety.
(15) Its application in a kinematic gait-analysis system is demonstrated, employing minimally encumbering electrogoniometry and foot-contact switches.
(16) The measurement of microdosimetric distributions for the purpose of estimating the quality factor, Q, may be encumbered in pulsed radiation fields--as produced, for instance, by accelerators with low duty cycle--because of a signal pile-up.
(17) Occupations tend to be more of a factor in white males, where occupational choice is least encumbered, than in black males or in females.
(18) The polar head group of DOPA, being more negatively charged and sterically less encumbered than diester phosphate ligands, most probably was responsible for this adherence of the lipid bilayers to the crystal surfaces.
(19) It is suggested that in sick premature infants, when the head is encumbered by various types of apparatus, this technique might prove more feasible than HC measurement.
(20) Traditional manual reporting systems are encumbered by the necessity of transcription of test information onto hard copy reports and then the subsequent distribution of such reports into the hands of the user.
Encumbrance
Definition:
(n.) That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.
(n.) Same as Incumbrance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Russians call it [the Crimea operation] ‘fast power’ – there are no democratic encumbrances, executive power is sovereign, the legislature, the military, the media, the judiciary are compliant.
(2) The ergonomic demands of firefighting are extreme at peak activity because of high energy costs for activities such as climbing aerial ladders, the positive heat balance from endogenous and absorbed environmental heat, and encumbrance by bulky but necessary protective equipment.
(3) Next to all these encumbrances the author remembers also many pleasant events and great satisfaction given by the special way of life and acting.
(4) Measurements of foot length are valuable in premature babies who are too ill at birth for conventional anthropometric measurements to be made, and in whom such measurements cannot be carried out subsequently because of the encumbrance of the incubator and intensive care apparatus.
(5) Although various complications such as electrolyte imbalance and urinary infection are known to be induced by ureterosigmoidostomy, it is still a surgical technique difficult to ignore since it allows patients to lead an almost normal life without the encumbrance of external urinary devices.
(6) The major advantages of this system as compared with available systems are ease of use, decreased patient encumbrance, potential for portability, potential for digitizing the signal for minicomputer compatibility, and greatly reduced expense.
(7) Both Russia and China have expressed interest in snapping up the state-run railway network, one of the biggest encumbrances on public finances before the debt crisis erupted in late 2009.
(8) And, no less naturally, Trump supports them – as well as regarding Nato as “obsolete” and the UN as an encumbrance to US power (even if his subordinates rush to foreign capitals to say the opposite).
(9) The size of the unit is 4.5 x 6.5 x 2 cm and it weighs about 60 g. It is designed to acquire EEG and other physiological data where the requirement is to obtain bioelectrical activity without cable encumbrance or confining behavioral restrictions.
(10) Thus, knowledge is still incomplete, but the review indicates that loneliness may be significant at all stages in the course of alcoholism: as a contributing and maintaining factor in the growth of abuse and as an encumbrance in attempts to give it up.
(11) Our findings, albeit limited, suggest that greater caution should be used in implicating associations of spermatozoal autoantibodies with absolute infertility, because novel assisted reproductive technologies often may obviate conventional encumbrances on opportunities for pregnancy.
(12) The incidence of surgically treated lumbar disc herniation among people aged 18 years or younger was calculated, and the expected value of disc herniation was obtained in an age-specific manner, on the basis of the age distribution of encumbrances in the above case-control study.
(13) Mr Anthony Asquith, the president of the A.C.T., then read aloud from the scroll conferring on Mr Chaplin honorary membership of the association for life "free of all charges and encumbrances absolutely."
(14) The encumbrances of 18-year-old or younger patients with lumbar disc herniation showed familial predisposition, with an odds ratio of 5.61 in comparison to the controls.
(15) Seventy-nine percent of the patients who used both systems preferred the TAS for better handling, lower encumbrance, and major safety.
(16) The mayhem and nastiness of the occasion were encumbrances for Spain, who would have envisaged a wholly different type of game.
(17) It was suggested that there is familial clustering of lumbar disc herniation among the encumbrances of 18-year-old or younger patients with lumbar disc herniation.
(18) When certain ailments are an overwhelming and irremediable encumbrance, treatment directed at other curable ailments, although life-saving, cannot effectively achieve the goals of medicine.
(19) The volume events of breathing can be measured without recourse to a mouthpiece or face mask, other than for calibration, and with minimal encumbrance to the subject.
(20) Nonacoustic alternatives which could obviate these encumbrances have not become practical due to inefficient coupling (piezoelectric techniques) or unfeasible power requirements (electromagnetic techniques).