Sentence examples for clumsy system from inspiring English sources

Many of the huge communal farms lie fallow, bankrupt remnants of a corrupt and clumsy system that was brutally engineered by Stalin over 70 years ago.

Vietnam runs a clumsy system of official censorship, calling in editors every week – on Tuesdays in Hanoi and Thursdays in Saigon – to tell them what to cover and what to conceal.

Without Akamai, Internet content providers are faced with a clumsy system of backbone providers and local Internet service providers (ISPs) that don't always get the job done.

In the words of Lloyd Tabb, the ex-Netscape/LiveOpps engineer who built Looker, business intelligence has been a cumbersome and clumsy system up to now.

Facebook could potentially do something similar on iOS, but that would require a clumsier system like TestFlight where users have to manually drag in updates.

The great weakness of the first game was its clumsy combat system.

It was a creepy experiment, a kiss-up to corporate buyers, an attempt to graft a clumsy operating system onto a sleek and efficient piece of hardware.

I shamefully skipped masterpiece after masterpiece, following a somewhat clumsy signage system that directed me almost straight to the Mona Lisa.

As collaborators, Holland and the princes of Orange could make the clumsy governmental system work with surprising effectiveness; as rivals, they imperiled its potency as a state, at least until one or the other emerged a temporary victor, but neither force was able to rule permanently without the other.

That Skymark got off the ground at all is owing to Sawada's ability to exploit weaknesses in Japan's clumsy bureaucratic system.

Is it not scandalous that a keyboard layout deliberately designed to prevent skilled humans from overtaking the clumsy mechanical systems of a century ago has survived into the age of computers and PDAs?