Thesaurus / encumbrance
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Often, those restrictions will more heavily constrain Democratic voters for whom added bureaucracy is a more challenging encumbrance.
ELEVATING DOUBT IS THE POINTPHILIP BUMPMAY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTFor developers this is both incredibly freeing — a chance to make it big without all the encumbrance of a traditional studio — but also supremely precarious.
ON DISCORD, BOTS FIND A FOOTHOLD AS MINI INDIE SUCCESS STORIESLUKE WINKIEMARCH 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHe points to the hassles of regulatory compliance and warding off hacks as an unnecessary encumbrance on businesses.
VERY GOOD SECURITY RAISES $60 MILLION TO MAKE DATA FORCE FIELDS FOR DOORDASH, BREXRHHACKETTFORTUNEDECEMBER 21, 2020FORTUNEDangerfield was no longer conscious of anything but an angry determination to revolt, to be free of all encumbrance.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSONThe cargo of the sloop hoisted on to the deck by the capstan, compact as he had made it, was an encumbrance.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGOSo desperate had been the charge that our little craft was now actually a serious encumbrance to the monster.
THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONTLOUIS DE ROUGEMONTAn' sell Bruno; he's a vicious brute—nothin' but an encumbrance.
TWO LITTLE TRAVELLERSFRANCES BROWNE ARTHURThey set to work together to remove the irons, and his legs were at length freed from this encumbrance at about five oclock.
THE CHRONICLES OF CRIME OR THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. V. 1/2CAMDEN PELHAMWhatever has nothing to do, whatever could go without being missed, is not ornament; it is deformity and encumbrance.
THE STONES OF VENICE, VOLUME I (OF 3)JOHN RUSKINIt was to be a steep, almost straight-up climb, so Jack laid down his rifle and started without encumbrance of any kind.
BLACKFEET TALES OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARKJAMES WILLARD SCHULTZWORDS RELATED TO ENCUMBRANCE
- Catch-22s
- bars
- blocks
- booby traps
- bumps
- catches
- checks
- clogs
- crimps
- difficulties
- disincentives
- encumbrances
- hampers
- handicaps
- hang-ups
- hardships
- hindrances
- hitches
- hurdles
- interferences
- interruptions
- jokers
- monkey wrenches
- mountains
- obstructions
- restrictions
- rubs
- snags
- stumbling blocks
- traverses
- vicissitudes
- albatrosses
- amenabilities
- answerabilities
- authorities
- boundnesses
- burdens
- cares
- charges
- constraints
- contracts
- culpability
- duties
- encumbrances
- engagements
- faults
- guilts
- holding the bags
- importances
- incubi
- incumbencies
- liabilities
- obligations
- obligatorinesses
- onuses
- pledges
- powers
- raps
- restraints
- subjection
- trusts
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