(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).
Troublesome
Definition:
(a.) Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
Example Sentences:
(1) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
(2) Both drugs were relatively well tolerated, but trimipramine had a sedative effect which proved troublesome in some patients.
(3) Initial experience with the use of bromocriptine in 24 patients with troublesome micturition symptoms associated with an unstable bladder is described.
(4) Patients had troublesome symptoms uncontrolled by high doses of inhaled corticosteroids (mean 1450 micrograms).
(5) The EU report said that the MIT, Turkey’s intelligence service, had begun compiling lists of “troublesome individuals” years ago.
(6) She does talk openly and movingly about Barbara, though, whose rebelliousness became so troublesome for her parents that she was placed in various institutions during her teens.
(7) To try to determine the relative contributions of sensory and motor neuropathy in this troublesome complication, anorectal function was examined in 10 male diabetic patients with early faecal incontinence (mucus leakage or faecal staining without the need to wear a pad), 10 asymptomatic male diabetic patients, and 10 normal control subjects.
(8) The diabetics complained more often of fear and anxiety about future, fluctuations in mood and were finding their daily life more troublesome.
(9) Troublesome unwanted effects occurred in six patients.
(10) No one would deny that Thomas drank too much or that he could be a troublesome drunk.
(11) Since then, researchers have studied the problem of troublesome behavior in demented patients and the burden that this creates for relatives nursing them.
(12) Debate over the current sources of financing reveals several troublesome issues: the presence of residents allegedly decreases the productivity of professionals and leads to overusage of ancillary services, proposed methods to pay for faculty salaries and services have created confusion and concern, and the financing of ambulatory-care training has been insufficient and poorly coordinated.
(13) RBS starts charging financial customers to park their cash Read more The disposal of W&G is proving troublesome and expensive for RBS, which stunned the City last month by admitting it was abandoning its attempt to float the business on the stock market.
(14) Conversely, having no credit history can be just as troublesome as having a poor rating: without a history of spending and repayments, a bank may be less willing to loan you money.
(15) His subcorneal pustular dermatosis subsequently flared and was troublesome for 2 years until he was commenced on PUVA, with excellent response.
(16) Nevertheless their insertion is sometime troublesome and a superficial knowledge of the technical problems may lead to complete and disappointing failures.
(17) For instance; hesitant to go to a hot spring, or on a trip with friends (76%), hesitant to go to a clinic or a hospital for physical check-ups and common illness (74%), troublesome to wear special underwear (69%), inconvenient because ordinary clothes cannot be worn (56%), distressed when viewing own body (52%), unable to dress in thin clothes in hot summer season (50%), imbalance of the breasts (49%), inconvenient to participate in sports (47%).
(18) Baseline wander and muscle artifact are particularly troublesome sources of interference.
(19) Cardiovascular instability and eradication of analgesia have been troublesome, especially with the use of naloxone.
(20) The radical mastoid cavity can be troublesome and odoriferous, may require frequent visits to an otologist, and may interfere with swimming and showering.