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    1. He will not therefore encumber himself with everything that comes his way; he will take what he strictly needs and leave the rest


    2. “He will not, therefore, encumber himself with everything that comes his way; he will take only what he strictly needs and leave the rest


    3. Cut down this barren tree; why should it encumber the ground?' But the head gardener answered his master: `Let it alone for one more year so that I may dig around it and put on fertilizer, and then, next year, if it bears no fruit, it shall be cut down


    4. Some will see the event as a jumping off point and others will see it as an insurmountable hurdle, an eternal albatross to encumber all and any future endeavors


    5. The dark does not encumber


    6. way he put down his injured leg trying not to encumber it with


    7. Again, not a very difficult condition with which to encumber such a rise in fortune; but if you have any objection to it, this is the time to mention it


    8. I actually love no one, sir; you know it, do you not? I do not then see why, without real necessity, I should encumber my life with a perpetual companion


    9. Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might finish the process of rusting


    10. has not the right to make them slip over one's own precipice without their perceiving it, one has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others

    11. Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy, and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it


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


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


    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


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


    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


    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


    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‖


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


    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?


    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


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


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


    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


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


    16. the bonds that had encumbered him


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


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


    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


    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


    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


    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


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


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


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


    27. encumbered by few, if any, illusions


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


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


    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


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


    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


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


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


    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


    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


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


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


    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


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


    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)


    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)


    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


    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


    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


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


    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


    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















    1. Its giant size was not encumbering at all as it landed as lightly as a falling leaf


    2. ’ There is no need for encumbering our pages with an argument in reply to this notion borrowed from Origen and the Universalists


    3. And when you do make big money, as much as possible seek to use your wealth to simplify your life, not to make it more complicated by encumbering yourself with a portfolio of excess materialism


    4. Think of the love tokens “binding his soul,” and otherwise encumbering him, during the eighteen years that followed, and of all those, if he kept his promises, that now “mingle in the grave” with him! Fortunately, however, the poet had the happy facility of disencumbering himself


    1. The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions, with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations: though the effect of those obstructions is always, more or less, either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security


    2. It is a clog which, for the supposed benefit of some particular countries, embarrasses the pleasures and encumbers the industry of all other countries, but of the colonies more than of any other


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    Synonyms for "encumber"

    cumber encumber restrain burden lade oppress overload complicate perplex embarrass entangle hamper impede involve

    "encumber" definitions

    restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult