weighed down

They looked younger now than when weighed down in camouflage, flak jackets and helmets.

Leader Jean-François Copé is weighed down by a campaign financing affair.

The Tea Party was weighed down by the birther movement, and Occupy Wall Street has gotten looped in with hippie culture.

For better or worse, W. never seemed weighed down by the pressures of office.

How did Orringer balance this, keeping the characters from being weighed down by what we all know?

His only thought was to avoid dropping his heavy axe that weighed down his shoulder.

There was no elation, but on the contrary he seemed weighed down with a sense of the responsibility resting on him.

We flew along one of its banks, above the bushes, still and weighed down with moisture.

Florence was weighed down perhaps by that sense of remorse which he had well-nigh forgotten.

Vladimir Franzovitch was weighed down by the most extreme pessimism over the future of Russia.