“There is one school I know about where it was clear children were there because their parents found them an encumbrance to their normal business lives.”

“Magdalena considered the past an irrelevant encumbrance. Only the future mattered, only the task ahead.”

“The object of these walks is to enjoy the exhilaration of walking without the encumbrance of clothing.”

“If you think in terms of a national process-CPP-it takes you away from the encumberment of all those different provincial laws as well if we're able to make that adjustment there.”

“Then she realized that, in a peculiar lapse of abstraction, she had forgotten about his encumberment.”

“We... labor to find our identity in the infinite in spite of our encumberment in finity.”

“When he began running for president, he left his past behind, along with the encumbrances that go with it.”

“This cautious strategy allows Frankie to remain in a cocoon, unaffected by the encumbrances of getting close to other people.”

“I'm a big fan of shipping stuff home, it's so nice to make at least one leg of a trip with minimum encumbrances.”