How To Use Inconvenient In A Sentence

This is inconvenient for human land use, so we try to channelise and fix the channel in one place. 26 « September « 2008 « Stephen Rees's blog
Because large sum of metal money is heaved and inconvenient to handle, government issue paper money.
Facts are so inconvenient, sometimes. Times, Sunday Times
The infantryman carried a substantial ammunition pouch, bayonet, water-bottle, and ‘snapsack’ for a day's rations suspended from broad cross-belts, usually made of buff leather and pipeclayed to inconvenient whiteness.
Over the five years of our acquaintance with her, Fanny avoids pregnancy when it would be professionally inconvenient.

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Damned inconvenient, Zojja said a month later as she tromped behind Caithe and Snaff through deep jungle. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
To explain away inconvenient facts, they simply invent another twist. Times, Sunday Times
The English cottage has a rheumatic floor of beaten earth or tile; its rooms are few and small, and very dark; the water-supply is scanty and most inconvenient; its chimney smokes; mice and rats find secure refuge in the thatch; the masses of clinging vines make it damp and earwiggy; but what a lovely bit it is in the landscape! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
The disadvantages are that the batteries are inconvenient to change and severe battery leakage can be disastrous to the circuit board.
She would read, she would write, and she would be free from 'unhealthful, uncomfortable ... inconvenient ... fettering, hampering, monstrous skirts'. The Times Literary Supplement
The Oriental is a comfortable hotel, but rather inconveniently situated.
He urged his ministers to challenge the military, particularly if they suspected that defence chiefs were ignoring inconvenient facts. Times, Sunday Times
But public transport is still unavailable to many, and often inconvenient when available.
The King was inconveniently lingering so they hurried him along with an injection into the jugular vein of a mixture of morphine and cocaine. Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: David Seidler Protects and Defends The King's Speech
But any further inquiry along those lines would have disclosed that the ISI was an original patron of the Taliban, a fact "knowable" by anyone yet inconvenient for the ISI's senior partner in Langley, Virginia, to admit. Aural History
Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. The Federalist Papers
Instead, the company has focused on ineffective and inconvenient security procedures for the sole purpose of pacifying the traveling public.
The mercury barometer is large and inconvenient to carry from place to place, and a more portable form has been devised, known as the aneroid barometer (Fig. 45). General Science
They dismiss conventional medical treatment with anticholinergic drugs as inconvenient, unpleasant, and temporary, and they say that patients usually stop using anticholinergic drugs because of a dry mouth.
A critical taste might have objected that the plush curtains which shaded the windows were too heavy for summer; that the begilded wallpaper "swore" a little at its own dado and frieze, as well as deadened the effect of the pictures which hung against it; and that the drapery of lace and velvet which veiled the fireplace made a fire inconvenient and almost impossible, however cold the weather might be. A Little Country Girl
To explain away inconvenient facts, they simply invent another twist. Times, Sunday Times
But the contingent vegetarian still has to face some inconvenient facts. The Times Literary Supplement
And language has the power to disembody that which was previously claimed as true, but has now become inconvenient.
On Tuesday I had my 2nd exam, at the inconveniently late time of 6pm I may add, in ‘the Crypt’ - the morgue-like underbelly of Paddy's Wigwam.
This has proved to be both inconvenient and embarrassing to the mayor.
Meanwhile, we Europeans congratulated ourselves on forging a deal at Kyoto that would halt the oceans' rise and cosset the ice-deprived polar bears so memorably depicted in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth. How Not to Run Environmental Policy
His abode is out of the way and rather cat-inconvenient, but it's not 100% cat-proof. The Lovesong of J. Alfred Housefish
This means that it is better to ignore incoming calls, if it is inconvenient or dangerous to answer them.
Once the tally was done and dusted, Charlie was out the door and off to his son James' Confirmation, which had been inconveniently scheduled in the middle of the count.
Any large-volume unit inconvenient for transportation may be conducted with field inspection and the entity under sampling shall be cooperative by safekeeping the sample.
The Inconvenient Truth for scientists so heavily invested in the alarmist GW theories currently being promulgated [perhaps even fraudulently foisted] is that it is becoming more and more evident that the Earth’s climate is beyond our present control. Waldo Jaquith - Major evolutionary discovery.
What happens when the perfect life is interrupted by something as inconvenient as cancer? Times, Sunday Times
Trifling articles, like eggs or radishes, might be smuggled into a brown wicker basket with covers; but it did not consort with elegance to "trapes" home with anything that looked inconvenient or had legs sticking out of it. The Imperialist
His tactics to crush inconvenient questions, though, displayed the thug in him.
If I chose that way and was extremely unlucky, it might crash down at that precise moment, killing me inconveniently.
As a practical matter, the church often skirts this "marriage is forever" tenet using the instrument of annulment -- sort of a way, doctrinally, to "vaporize" an inconvenient prior marriage. RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
Rather, it's very clear that Will cut the line because it was an inconvenient impediment to his journalistic goal, which was to portray Webb as a "boor" who was rude to the Commander in Chief, and to show that this new upstart is a threat to Washington's alleged code of "civility and clear speaking" (his words). George Will Distorts WaPo's Own Reporting To Smear Jim Webb
The contemporary wealthy employ a veritable army to look after their brand, to wash away inconvenient facts about their past. Times, Sunday Times
But public transport is still unavailable to many, and often inconvenient when available.
MY: “The Navy, in particular, has been feeling like they’re left out of the action since terrorists — inconveniently from a budget request point of view — don’t seem all that interested in taking to the high seas.” Matthew Yglesias » A Piece of the Action
We have our brains to thank for this inconvenient fact. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
The air which fills the lungs is soon again expired, whilst the ingesta of the abdominal viscera are for a longer period retained; and as the space, which by every inspiration the thorax gains from the abdomen, would cause inconvenient pressure on the distended organs of this latter cavity, so we find that to obviate this inconvenience, nature has constructed the anterior parietes of the abdomen of yielding material. Surgical Anatomy
Its successes have been very inconvenient to the powerful and privileged.
Many of us have come to accept such problems as an inconvenient fact of modern life. Times, Sunday Times
The Oriental is a comfortable hotel, but rather inconveniently situated.
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Gateman is inconvenient then future life field makes to elaborate in detail, I at last on behalf point out.
His dual nationality was to prove inconvenient. Times, Sunday Times
Problem is, every time someone brings up those inconvenient facts, you respond with more truthiness.
These people often cause trouble by creating work that is difficult, inconvenient and disturbing.
What happens when the perfect life is interrupted by something as inconvenient as cancer? Times, Sunday Times
Sceptics kept pointing out inconvenient facts, but were ignored. Times, Sunday Times
The house is plain, simple, and inconveniently small; but doors and walls are great luxuries, and you cannot imagine how pleasing the ways of a refined European household are after the eternal babblement and indecorum of the Japanese. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Even then, and especially in Hollywood, only a lawyer with the mind of a pit bull and the heart of a lion can help you out when someone inconveniently changes their mind. Oh where have you gone, Norma Jean, Norma Jean
This in itself was inconvenient as my van is also my workshop and materials store room.
More likely, it would have been extremely inconvenient rather than impossible. The Sun
Their most recent research found people felt recycling was inconvenient and too much trouble.
But we don't as a whole quite know what to do with those inconvenient, rebellious in-betweeners known as teenagers.
Once accustomed to, the niqab is certainly not inconvenient.
The single strand of evidence that is accepted as authentic often turns out to fit all too neatly a particular theory which is being advanced; inconvenient evidence is set aside as unauthentic.
An indictment is far from a conviction but as Martin Kramer points out, this refusal to recognise inconvenient truths is also proving an indictment on their claims of expertise.
MJ posted: "But perhaps more importantly, a 'centrist' is someone who strives objectively to understand the world as it really exists before he acts in it in consequential ways rather than someone who interprets that world through an ideology that ignors inconvenient facts and acts in total disregard of all who question its vision. Sound Politics: The Religion of Peace Marches On
Solar preheater - the solar preheater can be connected to an existing hot water storage tank to which it is impractical or inconvenient to attach collectors directly. 1. PRINCIPLES
Hell, I don't expect Edwards to have done something on the scale of "An Inconvenient Truth," but for his pet project to bellyflop in two years doesn't say much about his organizational skills. Edwards Campaign Blasts New York Times Over Poverty Story
Everything is too much trouble, and it is made clear that your very presence is horribly inconvenient.
Condemned to celibacy because married servants were expensive and inconvenient, their proverbial cupidity arose as often as not from saving to buy themselves out of service and into family life.
The more elaborate and inconvenient your system is, the more difficult it will be to penetrate your methods.
Not only was it unplanned, it was also rather inconvenient. Times, Sunday Times
Such inconvenient facts would have rather stewed their story. Times, Sunday Times
There was a proneness also in the new occupants to regard the natives as an irreclaimable race, and as inconvenient neighbours.
Or if passengers were treated like customers rather than inconvenient hangers-on.
he arrived at an inconveniently late hour
Further environmental legislation could be politically inconvenient for the government.
We have our brains to thank for this inconvenient fact. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
The terror turns up in all kinds of inconvenient places - a "hootenanny," involving folk singing and poor judgment; the backyard of a neglectful mother who is hanging laundry; and an over-packed reception hall where serious partiers in ridiculous outfits are dancing wildly in broad daylight. Colorado Springs Independent
That would be fine, except for one inconvenient fact. Times, Sunday Times
In short, this society is a very inconvenient place for physically and mentally challenged people.
And the print won't vanish from the pages while I sleep at the click of a cursor when some agency decides they're politically inconvenient, or because they merely 'rent' the content and have the right to reclaim it for greater profit. The Didactic Embodiment of the Physical Book
I hate pop-ups, those damnable inconvenient pop-ups.
Sceptics kept pointing out inconvenient facts, but were ignored. Times, Sunday Times
The thumbstall has been made of various materials, but its use is somewhat inconvenient for the Gun Captain, and he cannot feel that the vent is stopped. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
We found Nikki's lack of footwells inconvenient when disposing of old crisp bags, apple cores, unspooled tapes, Snack-a-Jack packets and pop cans, although there was ample room in the rear.
What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful?
It is a very inconvenient fault of mine. Middlemarch
We need the right to see the inconvenient facts. Times, Sunday Times
If one of the mistakes happens to have your name on it, it's going to be inconvenient for you, and there are other problems.
If it became inconvenient, they might well switch to bus or train.
These could not be steam trains, because steam locomotives required watering and other servicing at inconveniently frequent intervals.
For some bands the death of an iconic lead singer could be seen as an inconvenient career setback. Times, Sunday Times
For some bands the death of an iconic lead singer could be seen as an inconvenient career setback. Times, Sunday Times
Their books use hackneyed plotlines, stock characters, and omission of inconvenient facts.
They were defending the right of the pamphleteer to publish ideas that were unpopular in society or inconvenient for the state.
The result is beautiful but local people find it very inconvenient. Times, Sunday Times
These range from the handling of simple, yet administratively inconvenient, cash payments to sophisticated electronic payment schemes.
Finding this state of things inconvenient, he had proceeded to try to remove the remaining half-digit himself with a froe. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
The fact is that his temper was so amiable and conciliatory, his conduct so rational, never urging impossibilities, or even things unreasonably inconvenient to them, in short so moderate and attentive to their difficulties, as well as our own, that what his enemies called subserviency I saw was only that reasonable disposition which, sensible that advantages are not all to be on one side, yielding what is just and liberal, is the more certain of obtaining liberality and justice. Benjamin Franklin
Their preference was for something old, but they were put off by the inconvenient layouts of the buildings and the decay in them.
Even the palaces of the mikado in Kioto never contained tables, chairs, bedsteads or any such inconvenient and space-robbing thing. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
The results could be highly inconvenient for webcasters of all kinds.
Parents always chose the most inconvenient moments to turn up. Times, Sunday Times
And we are gradually moving to the stage where it is an integral requirement of any proJect rather than an inconvenient afterthought. Times, Sunday Times
His anti-religiosity, though sometimes greatly exaggerated, was a bad stumbling-block; although he was free from the snigger of Voltaire and of Sterne, you could not prevent him, as Horace Walpole complains of his distinguished sire, from blurting out the most improper remarks and stories at the most inconvenient times and in the most unsuitable companies; while his very multiscience, and his fertility of thought and imagination, kept him in a whirl which hindered his "settling" to anything. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
The dining - room was inconveniently crowded.
Pour remédier à cet inconvénient, il faut parfumer la bordure avec le musc, ou l'eau de fleur d'orange; ou bien encore mêler quelque huile essentielle aromatique comme de citron, de cannelle, de lavande, &c. avec l'essence de térébentine, … The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
But horribly inconvenient for you, and for that I apologize.
It was squalid, dirty, inconvenient and unbearably noisy. Times, Sunday Times
And, inconveniently, the entire body of international law, treaties, and institutions are set up to make this feat as hard as possible. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Israeli Incompetence
They find the fact that you have a job rather inconvenient, and would probably prefer you packed it in. Times, Sunday Times
Further environmental legislation could be politically inconvenient for the government.
I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
He was not one to mince matters, nor did he wrap up inconvenient topics in persiflage.
This may be inconvenient, but it is unquestionably a good thing. Times, Sunday Times
Reminded me of British colonialist discourse which deemd Hinduism “ascetical” and “fatalistic” (and thus a pat reason for the poverty in India), never mind the “Victorian Holocausts” and other inconvenient truths. Matthew Yglesias » Aid, Growth, and Counterinsurgency
Does he advocate the suppression of inconvenient facts about his businesses?
Just days later, on December 12, the coachman was helped into the operating theatre - situated rather inconveniently directly above the hospital's boardroom - to begin his ordeal.
The Stability Pact was to have kept the currency health, but it became inconvenient for France, which ratted, followed by Germany, France, Italy, Holland, and Greece.
Inconvenient people become ‘unpersons’ in Orwell's world; inconvenient history becomes ‘unideas’ in ours.
Meanwhile here in Britain we are increasingly dismayed to discover that if we ever do summon up the energy for a metaphysical odyssey between the polycotton sheets, there's a small child inconveniently asleep in the middle. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Still more inconvenient, painful and annoying is another little pest called the chegoe. Wanderings in South America
But perhaps more importantly, a 'centrist' is someone who strives objectively to understand the world as it really exists before he acts in it in consequential ways rather than someone who interprets that world through an ideology that ignors inconvenient facts and acts in total disregard of all who question its vision. Sound Politics: The Religion of Peace Marches On
In contrast, Labour sleaze is just not possible and if proved is just inconvenient and any resignation must be accompanied by expressions of regret. Archive 2008-06-01
She abstracted herself from her inconvenient desire; she set herself at a distance from it and inspected it, as if it were a fungus of the spirit, asserting itself without permission.
On a day like this one, there usually wasn't much one could do but accept the generally inconvenient and unharmonious nature of things.
an early departure is inconvenient for us
It must explain away historical shifts in values, culture, and the natural sciences with casuistry - either reinterpreting history's events or simply ignoring inconvenient facts.
Parents always chose the most inconvenient moments to turn up. Times, Sunday Times
* Twitter is the Mark of the Beast described in the Book of Revelation and The Sci Fi Catholic cannot be held personally responsible for any inconvenient or unexpected damnation resultant from the use thereof. March Christian Science Fiction & Fantasy Blog Tour
They arrived at an inconvenient time we had just started the meal.
This occurs in neurologically normal individuals, but nonetheless is inconvenient. Times, Sunday Times
This is inconvenient in the extreme.
Mechanical compression is inconvenient, uncomfortable, and subject to poor compliance.
The old patterns are allowed to persist but are made progressively more inconvenient.
II. vii.66 (269,8) [As sensual as the brutish sting] Though the _brutish sting_ is capable of a sense not inconvenient in this passage, yet as it is a harsh and unusual mode of speech, I should read the Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
On the Mercury comments page, "Orlon Slax" points out that most lawyers would offer a prominent client payment terms to avoid further embarrassment, and wonders if Adams isn't spending the big bucks to keep other inconvenient matters under wraps - Let the speculation roll! Big buzz (Jack Bog's Blog)
The norm, however, required the evasion of a few inconvenient facts.
More likely, it would have been extremely inconvenient rather than impossible. The Sun
This is most inconvenient because it means I have to walk home from Heworth Church in the dark and, quite often, rain.
President Bush WAS treating the Aug 6 2001 PDF about the Al Qaeda threat as an inconvenient sidelight. Think Progress » Liz Cheney Airs Hypocritical Attack Ad On Obama For Waiting ‘100 Hours’ To Respond To Terror Plot
Tempting as it is to brush aside inconvenient facts, give them serious thought. Times, Sunday Times
New York, Madison insisted, was too “excentric” a location, too far from the center of population, and particularly inconvenient for people in the South and West. Ratification
My eyes were opened to a simple truth: supermarkets are the most inconvenient shops imaginable.
It is to the Spaniards that we are indebted, if "indebted" be a suitable term, for the wide-topped falling boot of the sixteenth century; that inconvenient, no-service thing -- good for the stage-players, fancy-ball men, and fellows like old Hudibras, who crammed a portable larder and wardrobe into its unfathomable recesses; but for the rough-riding horseman or the active hunter, a nuisance beyond all description. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
There was no suggestion that a politically inconvenient fact had been subject to pressure from the Chancellor. Times, Sunday Times
That's most inconvenient for me. I'm working that weekend.
Because of the inconvenient ice cover, most Antarctic geology can be studied only by remote-sensing methods such as seismology, which involves setting off explosions, bouncing the soundwaves down through the ice to the earth's crust and recording them on their way back up. Terra Incognita
She called at a most inconvenient time.
The horrendous thought of a baby being aborted (and killed) for being "inconvenient" at a point in gestation when actually available medical intervention could save that baby for parents who really want it is something our society should definitely take a closer, more ethical look at. 14 Important Science Questions
Governments, after all, are the ones who can change the law when it is inconvenient.
He is, and imagine how inconvenient this is, a nice person with a calm and sunny disposition. Times, Sunday Times
Its 11: 00a. m., and I can already tell that today will be a day where there are plenty available, yet unsuitably placed and inconvenient to use. Hunting Season
Does he not realise that the main reason most people don't use the bus is that they are slow, inconvenient and inefficient?
This has been extremely inconvenient. Times, Sunday Times
It was squalid, dirty, inconvenient and unbearably noisy. Times, Sunday Times
But the contingent vegetarian still has to face some inconvenient facts. The Times Literary Supplement
People were told on a whim that their husband or wife was a "fallen one" or "betrayer" - if that person became inconvenient to mom's agenda. Planet Atheism
Nigel Eastman believes that even if neuroscientists could prove that psychopaths had abnormal brains, they'd still be left with the inconvenient fact that nobody seems to know quite what a psychopath is in the first place.
The trope of triumphing lovers is so powerful it trumps politics, bulldozing past the inconvenient facts of the law with the sheer force of its familiar imagery and narrative drive.
Many of us have come to accept such problems as an inconvenient fact of modern life. Times, Sunday Times
They have the right to the guarantees of Chapter I of the first title of this Constitution, but the Executive of the Union has the exclusive right to expel from the national territory, immediately and without necessity of judicial proceedings, all foreigners whose stay it judges inconvenient. Deported
For sure, at times, it can be inconvenient and more but based on your fun journalized rendition of your ongoing life, you seem to be bitchen but yet bobbing and weaving your way through it all. Your Wish List
The only thing approaching a standard to compare with the floppy is the CD-R which is an inconvenient form factor and scores low on ease of use.
It is a very inconvenient fault of mine. Middlemarch
We are being told that we are in graver danger than ever, and that we must change our lives in drastic and inconvenient ways in order to be secure. Boing Boing: November 10, 2002 - November 16, 2002 Archives
Burns pussyfooted around every other sensitive topic – in some cases ignoring some very inconvenient facts. Turkish Media: Government Tools
Romance, in his novels, is set against the inconvenient intervention of reality taking the form of chance.
You buy the bullshit that comes out of the whitehouse like it is heavy creame. then you make ad hominems on me for pointing out these little inconvenient observations. CIA interrogations: "tough enough"?
They could benefit by remaining closer to the grassroots, by absorbing what people are saying, and by sending their reporters to what they might view as the "backblocks" and seeing what is happening out there - however inconvenient this may be to the news-gatherers. ANC Daily News Briefing
For people who find (some kind) of satisfaction in endlessly ceaselessly hysterically blaming Israel for everything – the above facts are inconvenient. Matthew Yglesias » Israel’s Irrealism on Settlements
Vets come home and the wars come with them, lying doggo sometimes for years, then popping up at the most inconvenient of times.
Quick inconvenient question ... observatories at LEO, GEO, and Lagrange points to do what? New Uses for Constellation Systems? - NASA Watch
We should try to jolt our minds from habitual tracks and look - at least look - where inconvenient facts may point. Times, Sunday Times
It was a Naples of the north, ‘a picturesque, odorous, inconvenient, old - fashioned town’.
Of course the credits pose an inconvenient problem as they are unproductive and equally a turn-off.
And I shudder to think of the inconvenient opening hours and limited range of services (such as restaurants) that we would have without the ethnics.
The road led us around houses, ramadas, and gardens, past children and dogs, the occasional inconveniently placed basket, and finally to the landing below Deer Town. Fire The Sky
He urged his ministers to challenge the military, particularly if they suspected that defence chiefs were ignoring inconvenient facts. Times, Sunday Times
We are ashamed to deliberately make a system so inconvenient that people will stop using it.
Just when you think you've got your strategy nailed and you've eked out all the profitability you can, Tom walks in and shows you all the easy money you left on the table or inconveniently hidden away inside one of your business silos. John Fox: The Root Cause of All Corporate Performance
The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community must be the same in either case; with this advantage, if the provision is to be made by the Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. The Federalist Papers
Evidently the major job of a PA or Private Secretary of an important official is to act as a buffer between his master and the inconvenient hordes seeking favours or the querulous ones voicing complaints.
For small, annoying hairs in inconvenient places, try plucking.
Sceptics kept pointing out inconvenient facts, but were ignored. Times, Sunday Times
Inconveniently for composers, birds don't limit themselves to the chromatic scale, or to the confines of a straightforward metrical scheme.
The gravity cell, while cheap and effective, is inconvenient for general use, owing to the fact that it cannot be easily transported, and the _dry cell_ has largely supplanted all others, because of the ease with which it can be taken from place to place. General Science
In heart-rending scenes in Waiting for Superman, which was directed by An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim, parents and children are shown watching as numbered balls are pulled out of a tombola. Can Geoffrey Canada rescue America's ailing schools? Barack Obama hopes so
Most of our industrial unrest comes at a time that is most inconvenient to the customer or to the general consumer.
Speaking of untruths, the bottom line is Al “I invented the Internet” Gore has a huge audience with his utterly stinkeroo of a movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” It's Hard to Imagine… « Climate Audit
Unfortunately, when it is televised, often it is broadcast during inconvenient time slots.
Such inconvenient facts would have rather stewed their story. Times, Sunday Times
The less frequent services combined with the theory of ‘key interchange points’ will make personal journey times much longer and journeys more inconvenient, thus further dissuading people from using buses.
It also looks at crinolines (more inconvenient than painful and dangerous - although they did have a tendency to catch fire) and bustles.
She does fifteen or so segments a year for GMA as the shows trend correspondent, and even though these segments are unpaid, inconveniently located in New York we live in Los Angeles, and always involve significant prework, she would happily do fifteen more. Go Put Your Strengths to Work
Not only is Mr. Peterson's vocal presence lost, the disc aims to banish the audiences, those inconvenient folk seen as marring the pianist's live recordings. A High Price to Pay for the Pursuit of a More Perfect Peterson
This has been extremely inconvenient. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps so much so that the actual historical evidence is somewhat troublesome and inconvenient.
We should try to jolt our minds from habitual tracks and look - at least look - where inconvenient facts may point. Times, Sunday Times
Does he not realise that the main reason most people don't use the bus is that they are slow, inconvenient and inefficient?
This in my judgment is also not significant except to show he is well able to deal with cross-examination and to seek to evade giving inconvenient but truthful answers.
Or drinking heavily or smoking, or any of the other activities that can cause an inconveniently timed death. James Altucher: 12 Ways to Live Forever
They find the fact that you have a job rather inconvenient, and would probably prefer you packed it in. Times, Sunday Times

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