How To Use Unwieldy In A Sentence
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Myanmar officials have repeatedly asked for more help from the IMF to help the government simplify the country's unwieldy foreign-exchange regime, which involves multiple exchange rates—including an official rate of about six Myanmar kyat per dollar, compared with a street rate of about 800 per dollar.
Clinton Encourages Myanmar
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It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
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In any unwieldy bureaucratic system there will be some in need who will be let down by officialdom.
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One can think of very few biographers who have the ability to deal with critical assessment of such diversity and unwieldy fusions of anecdote and myth.
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In town is another story, as its massive bulk can make it unwieldy in tight parking areas.
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Carrying an unwieldy armful of packages, she turns around at the sound of her name.
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Any judicial approach is bound to be unwieldy, time-consuming and subject to differing local regulations.
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It was becoming increasingly difficult to hide his unwieldy bulk.
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But the figure of the woman was still more awkward: an unwieldy bulk, two extended arms which seemed to bear it up with difficulty, and looked like two carved handles from the neck to the widest part of a large kilderkin, and beneath this enormous body, two legs, naked up to the knees, which could scarcely totter along.
Chapter XI
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Is it the duty of an already stretched institution to duplicate the role of common rooms, to cut back the funding to its essential political role, and seek to maintain an unwieldy sabbatical structure?
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Shaw – being the maverick painter in the pack, and a popular favourite – will surely win the big prize, though, with his views of nowhere places, meticulously and perversely rendered in the unwieldy and super low-tech medium of model aeroplane kit makers' Humbrol enamels.
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Then came the idea of the ‘post-bureaucratic age’ — in itself the kind of unwieldy phrase you might expect a bureaucrat to use.
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A one-handed lift can be used for picking up all objects except the heaviest or most unwieldy items.
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By the way, the note is actually about whether industrial companies have become unwieldy.
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Perhaps in comparing the pay of one who must control a vast unwieldy bureaucracy it might be better to match like with like.
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At normal, respectable speeds it drives without the unwieldy nature that afflicts many supercars.
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Personally, I have a sneaking admiration for anyone daring enough to hi-jack such unwieldy vehicles.
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In ten or twelve days after the cocon is finished, the worm makes its way through it, in the form of a very ugly, unwieldy, aukward butterfly, and as the different sexes are placed by one another on paper or linen, they immediately engender.
Travels through France and Italy
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So the books that you read shouldn't be too unwieldy in weight, nor contain particularly tight typesetting or small font size.
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One other important issue is to make sure the tour party does not become too unwieldy.
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It looked and felt so clumsy, so unwieldy, so…… artificial.
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The question of where this money is going is an important one, as the bigger funds get, the more unwieldy they become to run.
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The definition of cleanliness would delight a philosopher or scholar but is unwieldy in practice.
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The log which was to form the back-brand of the evening fire was the uncleft trunk of a tree, so unwieldy that it could be neither brought nor rolled to its place; and accordingly two men were to be observed dragging and heaving it in by chains and levers as the hour of assembly drew near.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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Fans of the original surely recall the unwieldy and annoying mini-game that was more enjoyable if you had auto-hack tools or just bought them out with Ryanbucks.
Gaming Target
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Conversely, large funds can become increasingly unwieldy.
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Fiba is an unwieldy bureaucracy that is not much concerned with policing its teams.
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The president of the union Siptu also voiced concern that the negotiations would become unwieldy.
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The large and unwieldy, Department of Human Resources Canada has been broken up into two departments.
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A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
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However, if the taxonomies try to capture all possible problems, they become too unwieldy to use for front-line personal like call center employees.
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There is also a laudable attitude to capping: funds are closed to new business before they get too big and unwieldy.
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A number of myths exist about who may adopt and about the unwieldy processes which exist in adoption.
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There is something thoroughly modernist about Burtynsky's work, the grand scale, the glorious detail, a kind of unwieldy whole.
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As cavalry platoons became too unwieldy, they were finally replaced by smaller paired tank and scout platoons.
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One other important issue is to make sure the tour party does not become too unwieldy.
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The result was an unwieldy and complex organization of all social classes and all shades of unionist opinion.
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In any unwieldy bureaucratic system there will be some in need who will be let down by officialdom.
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Given its unwieldy weight and awkward small spout and handle, this aquamanile was probably used more for display than for washing hands, all the better to allow admiring viewers to follow the drama enacted.
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These are presented for the first time in this volume, and while the mass of material is unwieldy, it is also fascinating.
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The defence committee is right to recognise that Nato's rapid reaction force has become unwieldy.
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Regardless, Greg Paul erected the subgenus Giraffatitan, and placed the African species, B. brancai in it, so that the species became properly known by the rather unwieldy name Brachiosaurus (Giraffatitan) brancai.
"Nothing remains. We could run when the rain slows."
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I prefer "pled" simply because it is less unwieldy.
Craig Issues Statement: "I Should Not Have Pled Guilty"
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It's good, honestly - it's just physically unwieldy, bulky and so extremely long that it's difficult to feel as if you're making any progress with it.
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I saw one day a herd of a dozen bullocks and cows running about and frisking in unwieldy sport, like huge rats, even like kittens.
Walking
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I've always disliked the term African-American it's far to unwieldy although the PC people of the world have made it necessary to use.
Name Follies
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The system has become unwieldy, easy to abuse and has lost public confidence.
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He was fitted with robotic arms but no longer uses them because they are too heavy and unwieldy.
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The elephant, unwieldy and awkward yet graceful and powerful, becomes an allegory for the form itself.
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An inherited and unwieldy system that provides more than enough for the few and not enough for the many?
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The thing measures well over five metres in length, yet rarely feels unwieldy or too large for UK roads and parking spots.
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The point? absolute talentless, imbecilic, people and mini, made up sections, can gain credence in large unwieldy organizations who have lost their understanding of what it is they should be doing.
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Accompanied by bugles, two picadors then make their way out, their horses sheathed in an unwieldy but effective armour.
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Unwieldy items like metal detectors, coolers and grills were cursed as they were portered in the dark, and cursed a second time surrounded by milling vehicles attempting to reverse direction over the ruts of a one-lane dirt road.
Stalin's Ghost
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If that's the new definition I have a feeling that the list of enemies of civilization is going to get mighty unwieldy.
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The system has become unwieldy, easy to abuse and has lost public confidence.
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In elephant polo, however, your mallet is an unwieldy nine-feet long, and it's easy to lose sight of the ball under the massive animals.
A Very Big Game
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In a big, unwieldy government, systems go wrong or do not exist.
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Council member David A. Catania (I-At Large) calls the bifurcated system an unwieldy "duck-billed platypus.
A $34 million crisis of confidence in D.C. schools
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Like everybody, I graduated from an unwieldy brute of a greenheart rod to the featherlight power of carbon fibre.
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Zeppelins themselves were unwieldy weapons of war.
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It was interesting to watch, at the Saturday night vigil, my exemplary priest muddle through these changes with his usual open heart, and it was interesting to see the highly sophisticated reader, homilist and teacher struggle through the stiff and unwieldy and language of "corrected" sections of the mass.
Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal
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Forget the unwieldy title and worthy subject matter, this is a breathless piece of reportage, like a vintage New Yorker feature put to film: expansive, comic, digressive and ever so slightly demented.
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If a fund does well, investors swamp it with more and more money until it is so big it becomes unwieldy.
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Over time, with the emergence of smaller houses to suit the nuclear family, they were discarded as unwieldy and old fashioned.
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It's more expensive, and from personal experience, somewhat unwieldy, but it may help solve your problem.
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My fantasy superbike turns out to be too unwieldy for my tastes.
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If a team gets much larger it becomes unwieldy.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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It was bulky, unwieldy and would not go far, given the cost of satellite transponders.
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A repository of the empire, the town bears a suitably idiotic, unwieldy name, and even in 1950s Armidale it was possible to hear such terms as bluchers, port and goolies (balls).
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The title is unwieldy, but the book—set in present-day Guyana—is a deft synthesis of travelogue and Bildungsroman, by turns antic and introspective.
Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665)
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Their balance is incredible, but you understand it when you see them herding horses with their long willow poles, which are so heavy and unwieldy.
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Even the rather unwieldy theological statement quoted by Ayer could be interpreted in this way.
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A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
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What is dismaying is that the salary bill and the administrative costs go on rising, which means the size of the government continues to be unwieldy.
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Many a big-budget film becomes unwieldy in production.
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But their size makes them unwieldy in city streets, and their acceleration is not tremendous.
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Guerciotti's cyclo-cross models were especially sought after, thoroughbreds in a field of balky, unwieldy CX beasts.
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Conversely, large funds can become increasingly unwieldy.
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Eugenie Allen says Leslie "doesn't do this loaded issue justice, '' because she" uses a battering ram '' to make her points, and so The Feminine Mistake is "unwieldy" and "polarizing.
Jeremy Gerard: You Say Mystique, I Say Mistake
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Rome tried in the third century to control its increasingly unwieldy and threatened empire by instituting a dynarchy with Constantinople, then later formed a tetrarchy with four farflung capitals, all on the fringe of the barbaric hordes.
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But the four-ball format was unwieldy and led to extraordinarily long rounds of five hours or more.
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If a team gets much larger it becomes unwieldy.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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The question of where this money is going is an important one, as the bigger funds get, the more unwieldy they become to run.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is also a laudable attitude to capping: funds are closed to new business before they get too big and unwieldy.
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After 15 minutes the unwieldy but effective Adam Pilling outwitted the Worcester goalkeeper, only to have his effort ruled out for offside.
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Perhaps in comparing the pay of one who must control a vast unwieldy bureaucracy it might be better to match like with like.
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The hint of proceeding put all into motion; the venerable attendants of the Emir set forward somewhat slowly, but Vathek, having ordered his little pages in private to goad on the dromedaries, loud fits of laughter broke forth from the cages, for the unwieldy curvetting of these poor beasts, and the ridiculous distress of their superannuated riders, afforded the ladies no small entertainment.
The History of the Caliph Vathek
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Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable
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The doors themselves are heavy and unwieldy.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The Cabinet already looked unwieldy for a population so small and which needed instead a lean and mean Cabinet to start delivering.
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Amelio has said Apple will concentrate development efforts on the Internet and multimedia, streamline operations and pare its unwieldy product lineup.
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As a downside, they're rather hot and unwieldy, being difficult to remove in a hurry.
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almost dropped the unwieldy parcel
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The whole vast, unwieldy bureaucratic mass was beginning to move.
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It is a piece most unwieldy and amateur, and one that I hope will better convey my innermost feelings about my car.
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unwieldy rules and regulations
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Other songs branch off down these individual tributaries: ‘High on the Mountain of Love’ is an avalanche of sound; unwieldy and arrhythmic, the only thing certain about it is its persistent, all-encompassing forward momentum.
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Some universal remotes can be large and unwieldy with way too many buttons, many of which wind up going unused.
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He was fitted with robotic arms but no longer uses them because they are too heavy and unwieldy.
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The most plentiful of these California ground-sloths, the mylodon, was about the size of a rhinoceros; an unwieldy, slow-moving creature, feeding on plants, and in appearance utterly unlike anything now living.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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They came panting up to his door with their unwieldy baggage.
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Through it all , an unwieldy caste system governed lord and serf alike.
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He admitted the CFP was a ‘very unwieldy piece of legislation’ but insisted that progress was being made.
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Their fingers skim on the silk as the unwieldy billows of parachute flatten like sea-waves, oiled, folded in sevens.
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They expect him to cut the unwieldy board by 10, give the public a bigger voice.
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The unwieldy jams curtailed in favor of tighter arrangements and improved songcraft.
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Although snowshoes may look a little unwieldy, they're light and very easy to use, and there's no special technique to learn other than just lifting your feet a little higher than normal with each step.
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I've sampled several home-facial gadgets that turned out to be unwieldy and faffy.
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The definition of cleanliness would delight a philosopher or scholar but is unwieldy in practice.
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Critics say the plan would create an unwieldy bureaucracy with a hidden agenda.
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As the executive committee became more and more unwieldy, the officers' group began to operate more freely.
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fiefdoms" - is both unwieldy and expensive, they say.
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The elephant, unwieldy and awkward yet graceful and powerful, becomes an allegory for the form itself.
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Paper ballots and physical presence in the polling station make the system too unwieldy to hack.
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Having all 12 clubs at a monthly meeting has proved unwieldy, so a smaller board will meet monthly with a general meeting taking place every two months.
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His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantick, and grown unwieldy from corpulency.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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It was bulky, unwieldy and would not go far, given the cost of satellite transponders.
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The thing measures well over five metres in length, yet rarely feels unwieldy or too large for UK roads and parking spots.
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Mr. Dodik argues that his first responsibility is to the people who elected him in Republika Srpska, who feel that any move to a centralized state threatens them because Bosnian Muslims will always have a majority to outvote them — the reason why the Dayton accord created such an unwieldy polity in the first place.
Bosnian Serb Leader Damps Hopes of Post-Vote Accord
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By the way, the note is actually about whether industrial companies have become unwieldy.
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The new Wraith combat fighters and Valkyrie missile frigates proved to be an unwieldy combination against agile zerg airborne organisms.
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Coursers had none of the ponderous, muscle-bound massiveness that characterized the chargers of heavy foreign knights and made them look so clumsy and unwieldy.
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She'd make a dint in this unwieldy task by visiting schools to make contact with kids before they start dropping out.
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In 2001, he inherited a large and unwieldy agency in post-Cold War drift.
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But you soon realise big organisations are unwieldy.
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Whether working with wood or stone, cement or iron: why do humans insist on imposing their face on even the most unwieldy things in the world, why do they name dead matter after their own flesh, personifying it as parts of the body?
Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture
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Most tuba players agree that if their unwieldy instrument has shed any of the bad associations that have clung to it - orchestral clown, herald of grim news, poorly respected back-bencher best when not noticed, good for little more than the "oom" in the oom-pah-pah -
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On the next wall, there is a clutch of figurative drawings from the early 1990s, some beautifully conceived and others unwieldy and amateurish.
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Not assisting the actors is the unwieldy dialogue, which caused an unusual amount of line fluffs on opening night.
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Cyclists should not ride while carrying something that would be too heavy or unwieldy to walk with easily.
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It's an unwieldy title referring to non-sexual relationships - think two older siblings living together, or an adult with a grown child who's moved back home.
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A large unwieldy cutter of home manufacture, the boards of which it was composed unplained and unpainted, with rope harness, and an undressed bull's hide by way of buffalo's, formed our equipage.
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
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On the seashore, and in the gulf, we find flocks of fishing herons, and alcatras of a very unwieldy form, which swim, like the swan, raising their wings.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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I would make copies with them to put in my notebooks, I do love those notebooks since the tags are so unwieldy and definitely cluttery!
Not What – But Where? « Fairegarden
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As the unwieldy quant is about ten feet long and made from heavy, stout oak, it will usually be stored as far away from the river as possible.
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We see someone pull them from a rack and stuff them into the bag, which stretches accommodatingly around its large, unwieldy and somewhat odd cargo.
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The men plod, doggedly, with large unwieldy blackboards slung over their shoulders, but everywhere they look nobody is interested in reading and writing when living from day to day is such a concern.
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Besides raising important matters of principle, the ban proved unwieldy in operation because of the great breadth of the civil service.
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A decade ago who would have thought that a young Indian American director with the unwieldy name of M. Night Shyamalan would be the toast of Hollywood?
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It was an unwieldy thing to carry and it distracted his attention harassingly.
The Palace of Darkened Windows
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This presupposes a reasonably developed infrastructure and thus a system less unwieldy than that of the United Nations.
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He had tried to rule as an absolute monarch presiding over a centralised bureaucracy and suppressing nationalist ambitions (especially those of Hungary) among the ill-assorted races of his unwieldy empire; changing times had forced him into reluctant concessions, but his reactionary nature and passion for the detail of administration, over which he laboured conscientiously, had blinded him to those greater issues which he had neither the vision nor the temperament to understand.
Watershed
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His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy.
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The brewer was large, raw-boned, and round as a butt of beer, but very fat, unwieldy, short-winded, and phlegmatic.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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His physique had been what no word interprets so fitly as the Scotch word "braw," -- not huge and unwieldy in size and strength, but manly and comely.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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Decided the gramophone was a bit unwieldy and switched to MP3 myself.
Going against my better judgment and being proved right and wrong at the same time
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If a fund does well, investors swamp it with more and more money until it is so big it becomes unwieldy.
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The usual problem of marshalling an unwieldy cast in such a confined theatre is tackled by doubling up on roles.
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A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
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His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy.
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Delegation was essential in so unwieldy an entity, and, like his predecessors, Augustus appointed senatorial legates and equestrian prefects to serve his imperium.
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His handcrafted planks are anything but dense and unwieldy.
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It was in vain for this unwieldy wretch to allege his utter incapacity; the boatswain's driver was commanded to whip him up with the cat-and-nine-tails; the smart of this application made him exert himself so much, that he actually arrived at the puttock shrouds; but when the enormous weight of his body had nothing else to support than his weakened arms, either out of spite or necessity, he quitted his hold, and plunged into the sea, where he must have been drowned, had not a sailor, who was in a boat alongside, saved his life, by keeping him afloat till he was hoisted on board by a tackle.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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The mask's unwieldy construction made it difficult to fall asleep.
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Picture the first 19 th-century photographers, perched behind unwieldy wooden cameras atop tripods, their subjects sitting stiffly without motion.
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But while there is but little analogy in the sounds of the lexicography, so far as known, it is in this quarter of the globe, that we perceive resemblances in some words of the Shemitic group of languages, positive coincidences in the features of its syntax, and in its unwieldy personal and polysyllabical and aggregated forms; and the inquiry is one, which may be expected to produce auspicious results.
Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846
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It is about to become a very long, heavy, unwieldy and unreliable train, one that the traditional Franco-German engine will not be able to pull alone.
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Cyclists should not ride while carrying something that would be too heavy or unwieldy to walk with easily.
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The screenplay is a muddle that is ironed out in the final reel with a big, unwieldy chunk of exposition.
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He was fitted with robotic arms but no longer uses them because they are too heavy and unwieldy.
The Sun
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They came panting up to his door with their unwieldy baggage.
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He did it very well, too — much better than you would have expected from so apparently unwieldy a _mouchard_.
A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales
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It also criticised it for not reacting to signals from the market place and for having a structure that's too unwieldy and fragmented.
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It also sounds like the noise that the aforementioned primary school child would make if they were given an unwieldy cello with which to hone their skills.
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France, Canada and Russia have built power stations using the tide, but they are unwieldy and inefficient.
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While this would be less unwieldy than a system of financial payments, it is still not ideal.
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In the revised edition (1992) of his book Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, the sociologist Andrew Cherlin ruefully comments: If there were a truth-in-labeling law for books, the title of this edition should be something long and unwieldy like Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, More
Dan Quayle Was Right
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The screenplay is a muddle that is ironed out in the final reel with a big, unwieldy chunk of exposition.
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These unwieldy nature series insist on imposing a plot on the plotless wilderness.
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Released by the National Archives in Kew, west London, the slim Security Service file casts new light on the uneasy relationship between one of the 20th century's most influential writers and the institutions of the British state, which he frequently criticised as unwieldy and unjust.
How MI5 kept watch on Orwell
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It stands for a belief in system and reproducibility, yet its elements are made to resist systematization in the extreme; Teige's photomontages would make an unwieldy printer's font, for example.
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While the buyout has slowly reduced the number of shrimping licenses, some are looking to accelerate the buy-back process and revamp the unwieldy two-license system.
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The unwieldy but serviceable striker skelped a ball across the goalmouth that kissed the crossbar on its way past.
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The multidisciplinary medical notes become unwieldy and incoherent, and the drug chart runs to many pages.
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The project of fixing our political system is an unwieldy one for those of us with a theoretical bent.
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And all of this talk of dis-establishing the unwieldy and unworkable and agglomerated-monstrosity 'nations' (and Economy) as over-extended as 'the 48 States,' is what is contained and meant in the 1960s bumpersticker: Think globally, Act locally. by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 30 diaries, 589 comments [29 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009 at 1: 58: 24 AM
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On the next wall, there is a clutch of figurative drawings from the early 1990s, some beautifully conceived and others unwieldy and amateurish.
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He argues that the unwieldy nature of the ECBs Executive Board their analog to the FOMC introduces inertia and status quo bias, preventing the institution from acting as "nimbly" as the FED.
Why are the Fed and the ECB acting so differently?
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In a big, unwieldy government, systems go wrong or do not exist.
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The sledge hammer my father used was as unwieldy as ever, so I began with the smaller toys, smashing them with the joy of a titan.
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Use the slipped buntline where you need to hitch to a very large object where a slipped Sailor's Hitch for a quick-release hitch would prove unwieldy.
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True, his bike was unwieldy by modern standards, weighing 57 lb, but it was, and is, clearly the world's first such machine.
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The first thing we learned is that the head is so heavy (being chunkier than a battle-axe) that the thing is pretty useless in melee — it is just too unwieldy.
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It is common for men of the most unwieldy corpulence to crowd themselves into a chair, and demand to be carried for a shilling as far as an airy young lady whom we scarcely feel upon our poles.
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The third daughter thought for a while, then unslung her unwieldy bag, placed it on the bone-dry ground, and opened it.
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Such jury-rigged arrangements are necessary to deal with an unwieldy coalition where jobs are awarded based on nationality and not merit.
Measuring the Man in Charge
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Last year, he, frustrated by the unwieldy size of the board of directors, decided he would quit.
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The fear was that such a big country was so unwieldy that there would be a tendency for a central authoritarian ruler to emerge.
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The addition of two wild cards in each league would give the top two finishers first-round byes but make the tournament unwieldy.
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The definition of cleanliness would delight a philosopher or scholar but is unwieldy in practice.
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So the books that you read shouldn't be too unwieldy in weight, nor contain particularly tight typesetting or small font size.
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But the formula which brought them together was widely, and justifiably, condemned as unwieldy and tedious.
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An inherited and unwieldy system that provides more than enough for the few and not enough for the many?
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The doors themselves are heavy and unwieldy.
The Times Literary Supplement
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An unwieldy title for a curiously featherlight piece of work.
Times, Sunday Times
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They observed Asian elephants, both wild and captive, tearing off leafy side branches from trees or from unwieldy limbs already on the ground.
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Many a big-budget film becomes unwieldy in production.
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I've just opened an invitation to a launch party, which was encased in the sharpest, heaviest, most unwieldy envelope in the western world.
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It is, however, the only circumstance of duelling, which savours of common sense, as it puts all mankind upon a level, the old with the young, the weak with the strong, the unwieldy with the nimble, and the man who knows not how to hold a sword with the spadassin, who has practised fencing from the cradle.
Travels through France and Italy
