Sentence examples for cumbersome rules from inspiring English sources

Some nonprofit organizations, facing cumbersome rules and paperwork, decided to opt out of the navigator program.

Mr. Suleiman, a stalwart of the Mubarak government, was tripped up by cumbersome rules it put in place to discourage challenges to Mr. Mubarak.

And are they guilty of deterring European companies, either repelling them at the border with high tariffs, or bogging them down in cumbersome rules and regulations?

But the Bush administration has a way of presenting a major policy change as a minor effort to tidy up cumbersome rules.

Firms that want to bring in skilled workers find it costly, time-consuming and often impossible, thanks to cumbersome rules and a rigid cap on the number of visas.

Politicians are unwilling to raise taxes, so they squeeze suppliers instead: more than three-quarters of public hospitals operate at a loss.Like other service industries in Japan, there are cumbersome rules, too many small players and few incentives to improve.

Dr. Michaels said the agency was hamstrung by its own cumbersome rule-making process.

Since patent disputes can hinge on the meaning of a single word, and some applications can be hundreds of pages long, this is a cumbersome rule.

But some less cumbersome rule, such as a simple requirement that cable companies should offer competing Internet service providers (ISPs) the same facilities that they offer their own, could be devised.

Until now, the State Council had to approve every change in interest rates, a cumbersome rule that limited the central bank's ability to move rates up and down in response to the changing fortunes of the economy.

This cumbersome rule is particularly inefficient when applied to the CEO of a failed startup because it discourages one key character trait that defines most entrepreneurs: They are persistent.