(e) The right to transfer, encumber or otherwise dispose of any assets of the estate is suspended.

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.

The draft Constitution provides acceptable answers to many questions of governance. But the elevation of the Social Chapter, previously a list of good intentions, to the status of fundamental constitutional rights, threatens to encumber workers and businesses in the member states with burdensome judicial proceedings and expensive social entitlements written by judges in Luxembourg whose last word is beyond appeal.