How a Big Ugly ever learned to cope with this cumbersome system was beyond him.

The cumbersome system the Administration proposes may be a measure of its computer naivete.

Freedom for individual schools, but an uncoordinated and cumbersome system for parents.

It was a cumbersome system, which would, he suspected, eventually give way to monogamy.

Among other changes, these plans would eliminate the cumbersome system by which board members are chosen.

The cumbersome system for obtaining signatures, however, is seen as a big obstacle toward meeting the Government's 80 percent goal.

I thought this was a ridiculous and cumbersome system until the candidates for these positions began buying ads in the Times.

This cumbersome system hampered commerce and eventually cost Spain its empire.

One manufacturer called the city's system so cumbersome that it was the laughingstock of the ambulance industry.

On 1 January 1999, once exchange rates have been fixed, this cumbersome system will disappear.