In Rumsfeld's six-year tenure, he had initiated a dizzying list of reforms, some deemed necessary even by his critics, from the restructuring of the Army's once-cumbersome fighting formations to the repositioning of American forces abroad, shifting them away from Western Europe.
The convenience was not lost on security researchers, who saw hosted desktop virtualization as a way to speed up the once-cumbersome process of analyzing how viruses and other malicious software, called "malware," affect a computer's operating environment.
Supporters say the innovation has brought some efficiency to what was once a cumbersome process.
Wheelchair tennis is a compelling game to watch, the chair at once so cumbersome to the task at hand, but also unerringly fluid.
The author has pared and fine-tuned what was once a cumbersome style so that it is now as clean, lean and forceful as the series's heroine, whose spooky beauty and daunting manner make an indelible impression wherever she goes.
The use of geothermal energy in Iceland has developed in sync with time, as what was once a cumbersome necessity has become an economically and technologically feasible alternative to imported fossil-based energy sources.
Once a cumbersome tool wielded only by academics and nerds, today's Web challenges not just retailers but everyone from venerable Merrill Lynch and Aetna Inc. to high-tech Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Stealth attacks are all around us.
Elliott declined, because bathroom breaks are cumbersome once the suit is on.
In most cases, after a tenant fails to pay rent for more than a month, a disciplinary process unfolds that is at once costly and cumbersome for the Housing Authority and stressful for the resident.
While UNICEF's process for approval of budgetary and programmatic changes could be cumbersome, once approval was received, it could redirect both human and financial resources relatively quickly to emerging high-risk areas as the virus circulated to new communities and as resistance to vaccination services waxed and waned.
