Sentence examples for cumbersome negotiations from inspiring English sources

But its artistic director, James Nicola, long an admirer of Elevator Repair Service, worked hard to keep the alliance afloat (and the cast of a dozen intact), even as cumbersome negotiations with the unions made it complicated.

It "could create cumbersome, slow negotiations and maybe a chilling effect," he said.

The one-country-one-vote constitution that makes the WTO a more democratic institution than, for example, the International Monetary Fund, also makes negotiations cumbersome and decision-making clunky.

In order to maintain momentum in the negotiations, cumbersome procedures should be avoided.

Rather than wait for cumbersome multilateral talks to grind forward, the United States should quickly seek direct negotiations aimed at reducing current imbalances.

Those formats aren't unique, but Larsen said that with Adform, advertisers can "easily scale rich media" rather than go through the standard process that's "very manual, very cumbersome" and can require negotiation with and customization for individual publishers.

Hague says that EU procedures can be "cumbersome, slow and bureaucratic", with negotiations taking weeks, as they did over the imposition of sanctions on Syria.

Moving schools from the maintained sector to a contractual relationship with the secretary of state has proved costly and cumbersome, often involving intensive legal negotiations over land and assets.

Some employees say that the only way for the agency to force the cleanup of these smaller contaminated sites now will be through more cumbersome enforcement actions and settlement negotiations.

A Washington Post article cited U.S. officials who attributed the delays to "cumbersome U.S. government contracting requirements, negotiations over exactly what equipment is needed, and the challenges of creating an infrastructure to deliver an aid package that spans four dozen programs and several U.S. agencies".

Users might also find the negotiation process too cumbersome [93].