encumbrance

Examples of encumber

encumber
The second dimension that encumbers research development is the measurement of literacy level.
They seem to encumber the principal argument of the study and disturb the coherence of its structure.
We choose not to encumber readers with the details.
Retrospective experimental designs are limited by the data available and encumbered by many potential confounding factors.
Its emphasis on low-profile activities such as cultural interchange programmes and trade studies is intended to prevent the mechanism from being encumbered by over-ambitious goals.
They are often encumbered by external constraints in the form of peer pressure, poverty, and impairing social circumstances.
All the psychological terms that came to mind had been used previously and were encumbered with unwanted connotations.
Any computer system that would alert the writer to the possibility he meant "personnel" would so encumber you with intrusions as to be useless.
Physicians today are not encumbered by organized medicine's earlier restrictions on entrepreneurship.
A moral theory of the decently encumbered self should be enough.
These might usefully have been expanded to thin out the main text which becomes encumbered with topographical detail.
Neither do we want to encumber the programmer with this tedious and rather low-level task.
Those providing care to a relative with dementia are particularly encumbered by the scale and complexity of their caring responsibilities.
They are not normally encumbered with pushing forward an international political agenda.
So he asks what we are to make of it in an age when we do not wish to encumber our morals with metaphysics.
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