(a.) Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
(a.) Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since this derived formula is very cumbersome to manipulate, tables have been prepared with computer assistance to read the estimated fetal weight directly.
(2) Determination of right ventricular ejection fraction and volumes from radionuclide studies is cumbersome and is subject to considerable methodologic error.
(3) Downing street – aware of the anguish of the families of these unconfirmed Britons – has privately expressed frustration at the cumbersome process of identification of the bodies following the killings last Friday.
(4) Methodological improvements of the stool smear assay may provide a substantially simplified method for the otherwise cumbersome identification of ETEC.
(5) The apparatus is drawn so that plastic sheets serve as substitutes for the elaborate, but cumbersome and unnecessary, locking systems mounted on all the commercial blotters.
(6) However, using standard methods, processing large numbers of samples for immunofluorescence is cumbersome and difficult.
(7) The conventional Marbrook culture system has several disadvantages; the preparation and assembly of the chambers is time consuming, the size of the culture vessels limits the number of replicates that may be set up, and placing the cells in the inner chamber is a cumbersome and slow process.
(8) However, advances in robotic sample preparation may allow the more cumbersome solid-phase isolation or extraction techniques to be used to improved sample throughput and specificity.
(9) The popular systems of classifying DRUJ disorders are based on etiology and treatment, but this approach has inspired schemes that are cumbersome, redundant, and incomplete.
(10) The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.
(11) In the meantime, it is possible to evidence some features, sometimes shared with other species if taken separately, which in the whole characterize the epididymis in Equidae: the presence in principal cells of intranuclear inclusions and peculiar small granules in the basal cytoplasmic edge; the organization of groups of cells, likely to be principal ones, in such a way as to constitute intraepithelial crypts; a cumbersome presence of lipofuscinic matter all along the epithelium.
(12) HLA-DP typing using the Primed Lymphocyte Test (PLT) is a long and cumbersome technique requiring DP sensitized clones and bulk reagents.
(13) The main objections of seeking consent are as follows: it would be too cumbersome to obtain consent; if any patients witheld consent, prevalence studies would be less accurate; testing blood samples anonymously and without consent is an acceptable hospital practice; consent for such tests is not legally necessary; consent may be implied from the consent given to have blood taken; the consent requirement may be ignored in minor procedures; and there is no need for consent because testing could not harm anyone.
(14) A method is described in which a simple disposable plastic umbilical cord clamp replaces the traditional cumbersome instrument or expensive staples in the operation of end colostomy.
(15) Fenech said the multilayered, cumbersome intelligence apparatus was like an army of soldiers wearing lead boots.
(16) The usefulness of this parameter is reduced because of the cumbersome calculations required to determine the time within which an arterial pulse wave conducted via the arteriovenous anomaly reaches the jugular vein.
(17) Such systems are unable to reach a correct diagnosis quickly and often subject the user to a cumbersome dialogue.
(18) The overwhelming priority is to improve our financial and operating performance, improve our speed and response to events and improve internal controls.” East did not go into details about potential job cuts, business disposals, or exiting certain countries, but he said large layers of cumbersome bureaucracy needed to be stripped away so the company could function properly and respond to market changes.
(19) The patient is placed directly on this box, which makes the methods less cumbersome and more suitable for routine use.
(20) The 2-hr continuous measurement is, however, too long for a clinical examination and the 24-hr repeat measurement cumbersome.
Unwieldy
Definition:
(a.) Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he warned that the BBC’s in-house production department was an “unwieldy beast” and said it would have to adapt if it was going to compete head to head with independent producers.
(2) Critics describe it as unwieldy, unfocused and unlikely to achieve its aims – a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
(3) The shakeup comes after criticism that Ofsted’s current approach is debilitating for school leaders, while its unwieldy organisation has left it unable to spot damaging changes within schools involved in the Trojan horse affair, some of which Ofsted had judged to be outstanding.
(4) Its current crisis stems in part from it being too big, too unwieldy to control.
(5) Characterised by large, unwieldy, centralised organisations, the anti-war movement became complacent, overly reliant on rallies and petitions.
(6) The ultrasonic urologic probe is an unwieldy instrument for cardiac surgery, and we suggest the manufacture of a new probe for clinical use in our specialty.
(7) The results bring an end to an unwieldy four-year "grand coalition" between the CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD).
(8) Other milestones have already been reached: a draft text is in preparation , much slimmed down from previous unwieldy versions, and evidence has been produced that current pledges from rich countries to provide financial assistance to the developing world will reach required levels by 2020.
(9) Although that campaign had succeeded, its unwieldy federal model of multi-party cooperation was judged dysfunctional.
(10) Jeronimo said it would need to be priced close to its rivals, but the Apple brand would draw customers who either could not afford the larger iPad or considered it too unwieldy.
(11) The enormity of the denominator in contraceptive steroid usage is so unwieldy that mechanisms to measure accurately the difference in an extremely small numerator are still plaguing the epidemiologist, who at best can supply only estimates.
(12) Echoing fears among many MPs that Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King and his successors will control an unwieldy empire of regulatory committees that could challenge the Treasury's democratic mandate, Barker criticised government plans to create a financial policy committee (FPC) alongside the Bank's monetary policy committee (MPC), which sets interest rates.
(13) Last Thursday the CLP shut down an inquiry into the past two decades of political donations in the NT, as well as the nature of the Foundation 51 organisation – alleged to be a CLP slush fund – claiming it would be “unwieldy” and overly costly for the territory.
(14) Like many lymphocyte-monocyte products, this activity has been difficult to purify because of its low abundance in activated leukocyte cultures and the unwieldy bioassay required to detect biological activity.
(15) Sometimes he overcomplicates his work, to a point where the result is unwieldy.
(16) At the level of first contact, a primary health care centre, information management is an unwieldy task, therefore health information systems are reported to be inadequate and weak.
(17) The relevance of continuing education to clinical staff will be discussed in relation to the change in the content of nursing theory--from the unwieldy 'certainty-based' medical model, to a more flexible, thus perhaps 'uncertainty-based' medical model.
(18) While at the outset it can seem unwieldy, general consensus seems to be that it can work more effectively in challenging times.
(19) As Peter Kendall, then president of the National Farmers Union, put it to me at the time: while Clarke’s heart was clearly in the right place, “the company is an unwieldy tanker to turn around.
(20) The business minister Nick Boles said: “These changes will also simplify the law for businesses so they can spend less time worrying about unclear and unwieldy regulations.” Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, said: “Consumer law was crying out to be brought up to date to cope with the requirements and demands of today’s shoppers.