Sentence examples for clumsy solution from inspiring English sources

The lockout laws were a clumsy solution to a real problem.

Yet it is proving to be a clumsy solution to a complex problem.

And Sprint makes you do your e-mail work via a Web site, a clumsy solution with all the speed of an anesthetized slug.

The alternative will be a growing clamour from particular disciplines for their own advisory structures which, as I argued here recently, is a clumsy solution.

In his words, our brains and minds are supreme kluges, a kluge being an engineer's term for a clumsy solution to a design problem - an "ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts forming a distressing whole", in the words of computer pioneer Jackson Granholm.

Users would have to set up a whole new wallet, struggle with their credentials or use another clumsy solution.

Climate change adaptation at natural WH sites should be Adaptive, Participatory and Transformative, deployed through clumsy solutions.

Working across and beyond boundaries, being adaptable and super-aware, using intuition and innovation, relying on trial and error over charts and planning, and solving really difficult problems with clumsy solutions.

These "clumsy solutions" would involve bringing together "multiple, diverse, perhaps incompatible, perspectives" and would result "in a settlement that is inelegant from any single perspective, but robust because it relies on more than one epistemological and ethical foundation" (p. 123).

From our experience of working towards clumsy solutions through transdisciplinary collaborations in synthetic biology, this involves a difficult balancing act between on the one hand sustaining fragile institutional arrangements, and on the other hand making competing epistemological perspectives more explicit and discussable.

Barrier walls are not simply clumsy, imprecise solutions to problems of population movement, past and present; they also represent a catastrophic failure of political imagination endemic to totalitarian thinking.