Rather than taking the chance that FMCSA might resurrect its proposal on apnea screening, industry lobbyists approached allies in Congress to write a law that would require the agency to follow the longer, more cumbersome formal rulemaking course.
In the wake of alarming headlines, an obstacle course of cumbersome but laudable security precautions unrolls at airports, leading many of the earth's seven-billion-odd inhabitants to resolve to remain earthbound as much as possible.
And if we're not willing to accept that implication, it seems as though we need to reject "the soul theory of personal identity". Now, I use this cumbersome phrase because, of course, I'm not here talking about rejecting the existence of souls.
Those options failed to attract significant numbers, education officials said, because the path to teaching still seemed cumbersome, many of the courses mind-numbing.
Carrying a stone around was more cumbersome than papyrus, which of course was more delicate than parchment.
Of course, this can be cumbersome and tricky to roll out on a school-wide basis.
But the drug is expensive, at $93,000 for a course of treatment, and cumbersome to administer, making a pill like Zytiga an attractive alternative, doctors and analysts have said.
Wise men and women predicted the implementation of a US-style system where the title of "solicitor" would be awarded upon completion of the Legal Practice Course (LPC), with the cumbersome two-year training contract done away with altogether.
And while foreign investment is permitted under some circumstances, investors must navigate a perilous course among corrupt officials, cumbersome foreign-exchange controls and a legal vacuum.
There are private foundations, of course, but they can be as cumbersome and politically driven as government arts panels.
