Sentence examples for cumbersome at from inspiring English sources

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But officials decided the equipment would be too cumbersome at the difficult site.

A replacement initiative known as Small Loan Advantage has been considered too cumbersome, at least until recently, to win over lenders.

This was cumbersome at the beginning, but it makes cost-cutting easier now for example by using more (cheap, Russian) sugar and less (expensive, imported) cocoa.

The period style, for me, adds to the story's power – elaborate, even cumbersome at points, but cleverly refined when immediate effect is needed: the figure, that face.

You can see how this could become cumbersome at best, like an unwieldy version of that old game Telephone, where you whisper "Siamese cat" into someone's ear and the phrase gets garbled as it travels around the room, finally returning to you as "Hyenas fat".

I am not sure if Aaron wants to wear the Sidney Poitier mantle, it being cumbersome at best, but it seems as if, in this life, the world must always be divided between bad Negroes and dignified Negroes — and dignity hath its charms.

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The NHS is particularly good at urgent care, but it is also a cumbersome organisation at times; managers are often unfamiliar with the detail of what doctors do.

"To maintain such a cumbersome and at times ineffective military organization is extravagant," he said at the time.

Cumbersome procedures at Ethiopian customs delay vital supplies, according to one worker.

But getting the money out can be a cumbersome process at times.

For the novice author, it's a cumbersome process at best to learn how to become a one-person publishing company.

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