Sentence examples for clumsy policy from inspiring English sources
How can Russia's puzzlingly clumsy policy be explained?
His remarks were followed by much criticism warning Mr Cameron risked "stigmatising" Muslim women with "clumsy" policy announcements.
"Clumsy policies, poor management and environmental concerns have hampered the country's efforts to dig up fuel fast enough to keep up with its growing need for power," he writes.
Clumsy policies, poor management and environmental concerns have kept fuel production low, he wrote, and the power's sector's problems have "substantially contributed to a second year of slowing economic growth in India, to an estimated 7 percent this year, from nearly 10 percent in 2010".
Many west European countries thought the whole affair epitomised both the Bush administration's clumsy foreign policy and the destructive paranoia of the ex-communist countries in Europe's east.Now things are looking different.
Alongside the lack of macroeconomic rigour, there was a lot of microeconomic meddling: the government pursued a clumsy industrial policy and shortchanged the private sector, for example by insisting on absurdly low rates of return on concessions to run infrastructure projects.
"Clumsy laws and policies that encourage suspicion in family homes will alienate ordinary teenagers and may further marginalise those genuinely at risk.
Among all the citizens of this overpopulated, chronically mismanaged desert country, they also have the hardest work ahead: They are inheriting limited land and water resources, environmental devastation born of unregulated development and inadequate housing owed to decades of clumsy or corrupt policies.
The DA doesn't help itself by fudging its own apartheid-era history and by its sometimes-clumsy handling of policy and leadership issues.
And the president's clumsy handling of climate policy has got him into trouble for most of the past year.
The question is whether his ever-shifting policy positions, clumsy statecraft, and disdain for diplomacy will doom his effort.
