I've flipped through a Chinese dictionary, I've seen photographs of a Chinese typewriter, I've read about Chinese telegraphy, and despite their ingenuity they are all cumbersome inventions, wheelbarrows for the millstone around Chinese culture's neck.
Ed reasoned that, aside from revolution, the only way to advance change is through the administrative, legislative and judicial systems, all cumbersome and subject to powerful special interests.
It was a tank of a system, tacky and futuristic at the same, all cumbersome cream with its neon green circle winking ominously like something out of Minority Report.
Meanwhile the counting rules being used (which date from the earlier Start-1 treaty) will lapse in December 2009.Neither side wants to continue all the cumbersome Start-1 rules.
"Private Lives" is a comedy of bad manners, whose emotional and structural minimalism turns all the cumbersome proprieties of English drawing-room drama upside down.
Goodbye to all those cumbersome institutions of the welfare state, employment regulations that guarantee workers' rights or subversive attempts to question the status quo with regards to the ownership of data or the infrastructure that produces it.
Counterparts complain that the German ministry too often sends to Brussels just "a man and a boy .Enforcement will be the real challenge, assuming that all the cumbersome legislation goes forward on financial conglomerates, pensions, new capital-adequacy rules, risk capital for small businesses, clearing and settlement, accounting standards and insolvency rules.
The contestants, who have to do things like leap from one moving truck to another, climb from a speeding Jet Ski into a speeding helicopter, and allow themselves to be dragged a hundred yards by a team of running horses, are harnessed, goggled, and helmeted to the max, and you find yourself looking at all the cumbersome safety devices rather than admiring the contestants' prowess.
Wouldn't the second-hottest box-office star have done as well, and been more plausible than such a lofty winner, in this poor world of losers stuck in less-pleasantvilles? Rushdie himself well knows, after all, what a cumbersome handicap celebrity can become, and his seeming insistence on extreme glamour for his characters limits his room for maneuver within fiction's curious democracy.
But you know if you have a patient record open and you're looking for results that have been done at the hospital, you can't access it from the patient record, you have to open the internet and then go into through the SCI Scottish Care Information Gatewayy) and find out that way and type it all, it's cumbersome".
McMillan says scale-up remains a big issue for biomass because its energy density the amount of available energy per unit weight is low compared with that of fossil fuels: "That makes collecting and transporting it to a conversion facility all the more cumbersome.
