The net effect of these transactions was to encumber the property with liens and mortgages.

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With regard to the latter, the bill actually would encumber highly enriched uranium production as well as plutonium.

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Money is denominated in gold, silver and copper but all your money is always available and does not encumber you.

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Also, Brazil doesn't encumber exports as India does when there's a whiff of scarcity--and thus leads the world in sugar shipments.

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Despite the death knell sounded throughout the media, most people and most banks did not encumber themselves with mountains of unsecured debt.

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