An Oct. 18 report by Secretary General Kofi Annan acknowledged that such security now relies on "unpredictable and piecemeal funding and outdated, cumbersome and complex procedures".
In November 1998 the locking pins on a cumbersome and complex switching mechanism malfunctioned, causing the computer that runs the system to shut down power to all trains for an hour and 40 minutes.
In addition, people perceive the naturalisation procedure as administratively and organisationally cumbersome and complex in terms of information requirements.
However, it was felt that the combination of three techniques in a single hybrid model made them cumbersome and complex.
Ajdukiewicz used a "quotient" notation instead of our angled brackets; this makes the idea of "multiplying out" more graphic, but becomes cumbersome for complex cases.
The concept is rational, but remains a cumbersome and complex process where approximately 50% of candidate peptides are lost at every step after selection of a target sequence.
In stark contrast to the slow expansion of the number of arbitrators, the number of labor disputes reaching arbitral institutions increased by nearly 15 times (including cases mediated outside and formally admitted) from 1993 to 2007, rising from 34,159 to 502,084. 4 Heavy workloads prolonged the already-cumbersome and complex arbitration proceedings.
Compared with these skydivers' aerial ballets, his great leap was a complex, cumbersome, physically passive affair — the last gasp of Big Science.
Even before the scandal erupted, some analysts thought Volkswagen's dash for global sales had masked underlying problems, making the company cumbersome and overly complex, with more than 300 models, multiple brands and almost 120 factories.
iContainers seeks to take the port digital and bring transparency to an otherwise complex, cumbersome, and costly process involving customs agents, consultants, and copious paperwork.
