More manoeuvrable satellites are heavier, as they have to carry more fuel; protective equipment makes satellites cumbrous and more expensive; placing a satellite farther away from Earth, where it is more difficult to attack, means it will broadcast a weaker signal or require more costly sensors and antennae.
Cumbrous working parties toiled away melding Teutonic with American methods of running meetings and reaching decisions.
With Mr Kibaki as president and the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, as prime minister, the mere fact that their cumbrous joint administration has hung together is an achievement.
When the number grows to 20, or 25, and the committee gets ever more cumbrous, will that rule still work?For now, Mr Solbes points out, this is not an issue: the rule is set by treaty, and a change is not in prospect.
The raw material is a treasure trove, but the interface, on which buttons with similar functions appear here and there on different screens, and the cumbrous searching, mean that dreamers will find their fantasy entangled with clunking mechanics.
Landholding did prompt South Australia's most famous contribution to reform: that land transfer proceed simply by registration, rather than through cumbrous title deeds.
His History is also considered to have contributed much to the development of Russian literary language, for in it he sought to bring written Russian then rife with cumbrous locutions closer to the rhythms and conciseness of educated speech and to equip the language with a full cultural vocabulary.
Moreover, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge were opened to Nonconformists, or Dissenters (Protestants who did not conform to the practices of the Church of England), while between 1868 and 1873 the cumbrous military machine was renovated by Gladstone's secretary for war, Edward Cardwell.
In the event, the 60,000 attacking British infantrymen moving forward in symmetrical alignment at a snail's pace enforced by each man's 66 pounds (30 kilograms) of cumbrous equipment were mowed down in masses by the German machine guns, and the day's casualties were the heaviest ever sustained by a British army.
True, it had to be reconciled with traditionalist, clericalist, and monarchist elements within the Nationalist movement, but this was effected by the decree of April 19 , 1937 whereby the Falange, the Carlists, and other right-wing factions were forcibly merged into one body with the cumbrous title of Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista.
Urged by the French to take offensive action against the Germans, the Russian commander in chief, Grand Duke Nicholas, took it loyally but prematurely, before the cumbrous Russian war machine was ready, by launching a pincer movement against East Prussia.
