Sentence examples for cumbersome command from inspiring English sources

This resulted in cumbersome command and control arrangements, and in Britain developing its own nuclear weapons.

Despite their internal military reorganization, however, in the War of the Fifth Coalition, the army retained much of its cumbersome command structure, which complicated the issuance of orders and the timely distribution of troops.

In comments reported in The Baltimore Sun, members of the unit complained recently that the slow and cumbersome NATO command structure had delayed them from being utilized, and that they had been wasting time on the base rather than fighting insurgents.

Rather than simply sending his memo up the F.B.I.'s slow and cumbersome chain of command, the agent in Phoenix might have simultaneously entered a copy into a computerized database shared by other agents, who then might have made a connection by simply entering a few key words, like "Al Qaeda" and "flight school".

However, in all previous stages, the grouping command is cumbersome.

Dialing numbers by voice command was a cumbersome multistep process.

The Chiodos are part of a select group of perhaps 300 Iowans who -- because of their stature in the community and their command of the cumbersome turnout effort needed to win the caucuses -- represent more than just one more vote in a living room next January.

The committee faulted an antiquated air traffic control system in Peru, a cumbersome communications system and chain of command for conducting interceptions and inadequate language skills of both Peruvians and Americans.

Second, some of the existing programs must be used from a command line interface, which is cumbersome for the "typical" Windows user.

The development of complex workflows using piped UNIX command-line programs can be cumbersome.

As we incorporate tens of millions of additional functional elements into our database and perform more elaborate classifications, a command line interface will become too cumbersome to use.