encumbrances
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Coupled with the image of their brittle legs, these encumbrances, noted for their phallic overtones, create a sense of phantom reality.
Aquitanian rebellion An inheritance in the countries formerly under Roman law ( ius or iustitia) represented not only a transmission of the properties and privileges but also the encumbrances and obligations attached to the inheritance.
Salamanders are at their most vulnerable at metamorphosis as swimming speeds are reduced and transforming tails are encumbrances on land. citation Adult salamanders often have an aquatic phase in spring and summer, and a land phase in winter.
In 1976, Pakistan asserted its ownership of the diamond, saying its return would be, "a convincing demonstration of the spirit that moved Britain voluntarily to shed its imperial encumbrances and lead the process of decolonisation".
For one of his age, he thought much and deeply and in a letter to me once complained of "spiritual and material encumbrances of most especial adverseness".
The original GSM implementations from 1991 may now be entirely free of patent encumbrances, however patent freedom is not certain due to the United States' "first to invent" system that was in place until 2012.