He railed against government regulations that encumber entrepreneurship and restrict markets.

Let not the humbug of vanity, lodged in personal, institutional or national spaces, encumber us in our collective quest for a better world.

There was support for the concern expressed that reaching consensus on provisions on recognition and enforcement in the context of the draft instrument would require a great deal of time, and that it would further encumber the draft instrument, which was already regulating matters in a large number of areas.