Sentence examples for cumbersome obstacle from inspiring English sources

But the town-by-town franchise licensing process remains the company’s last, and most cumbersome, obstacle.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani will need to navigate two large and cumbersome legal obstacles should he decide to seek a third term as mayor, election lawyers said yesterday.

Another serious obstacle was the cumbersome federal structure inherited from the communists.

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.

To her dismay, she says, she encountered a cumbersome research system fraught with obstacles to collaboration and progress -- one that failed to focus on patient needs.

Tariff barriers, bad roads and cumbersome customs procedures form a far bigger obstacle to intra-African trade.

Those reforms would include enforcing — and possibly strengthening — measures passed by the Italian Parliament on Saturday that aim to eliminate some structural obstacles to Italian competitiveness, like cumbersome red tape or its entrenched professional guilds.

The main obstacle was, until recently, the high rates of noncompliance with relatively cumbersome deferoxamine therapy.

One obstacle is that vasopressin can only be measured by radioimmunoassay, which is relatively cumbersome and has too great a turnaround time for patients who have septic shock.

One important obstacle has been the city's zoning laws and review process, which are far more cumbersome than Stamford's.

The major obstacle to this is the Railway Labor Act of 1926, which saddles labor and management with cumbersome dispute-resolution procedures that provide no practical mechanism for reducing labor costs.