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He has a whale boat and used to go fishing in it, but now he is no longer strong enough to manage its unwieldy bulk.

Alex Osborn, brainstorming's inventor, recommends an ideal group size of twelve, though this has proven to be a bit unwieldy.

Worse, nowadays, new oil tends to be found in relatively inaccessible spots or in more unwieldy forms.

Although you can implement all of these using the basic operations XSLT does support, such a program would be both unwieldy and slow.

This unwieldy archive of my past, all my nearly forgotten selves, will eventually be my bequeathed burden to her, I suppose.

It shows up in your design as unclear information, unwieldy navigation, and other easily identifiable pieces of your design.

This query, although fairly simple in terms of the result set, is lengthy and unwieldy when you have to maintenance such a query.

Cynics might scoff at GE's unwieldy "-magination" suffix, but it seems to have some kind of hidden mojo.

The SQL required to perform such a complex set of transformations would prove unwieldy and difficult to maintain.

That independent streak and willingness to break with the Party is what makes nationalism such an unwieldy force for China's rulers.

Any firm the size of J. P. Morgan is too unwieldy for any one man to run on his own.

Being an independent public company may be better than being part of an unwieldy conglomerate.

The director-general's post is undermined by an unwieldy structure that gives too much power to six elected regional heads.

Then there are those who absolutely hate them, believing them to be unwieldy and a poor substitute for a meeting.

In the sample application, you took an unwieldy stylesheet and refactored it into a much smaller and more maintainable piece of code.

One of its trickiest tasks would be handling Japan's unwieldy bureaucracy.

I initially created a mailing list for communication among Tcl users, but within a few years it became so large as to be unwieldy.

Hosokawa, leader of an unwieldy coalition, dropped the plan after members of his cabinet and coalition partners called foul.

However, trying to express approximately 46 Hiragana glyphs from the 26-character, A-Z Latin alphabet is somewhat unwieldy.

The new Wraith combat fighters and Valkyrie missile frigates proved to be an unwieldy combination against agile zerg airborne organisms.

For the Big Four, these problems are reinforced by their unwieldy federations of individual member firms scattered around the world.

He lowed his head in shame, his cumbersome face burning. His fingers felt gross and unwieldy .

South Korea has proved a skilled chair of this unwieldy grouping, heading off some of the alarming rhetoric about currency wars.

This terminology of full and partial repositories is somewhat unwieldy and a little confusing.

The region's unwieldy conglomerates could do more to help themselves achieve global scale by concentrating on fewer businesses.

For instance, early sketches of the bike above included a lot more unwieldy weaponry on the front of the bike.

One drawback to solar-generated electricity is the unwieldy panels, which look out of place on a traditional home.

I started out trying to do my own bit operations, which were not only unwieldy, but also extremely slow.

Since the detailed expression is somewhat unwieldy we present it here in its general form.

So deeply in debt are the hardest-hit of this unwieldy bunch that only the central government has the cash to prop them up.

As you can guess, this quickly consumes an unwieldy amount of memory.

Others suggest that the aim is to ensure the election of a weak, unwieldy parliament.

I suspect that such a hybrid market system is too unwieldy to allow the Chinese government to manage a soft landing for its economy.

Each additional switch incurs many new switch combinations; the number of combinations quickly becomes unwieldy.

If we as individuals need a good push to get us out of our comfort zones then unwieldy organisations need a mighty shove.

Using finally to release resources acquired in a method is reliable but can easily get unwieldy when multiple resources are involved.

heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair.

The backward incompatibility with Python 1. 5 is unfortunate, but it would be too unwieldy to maintain it in this case.

Though the phalanx was unwieldy and the equipment cumbersome, Greek hoplites were the best fighters in the Mediterranean world.

The pointcut required in these situations can get unwieldy, as you can see for yourself in the following example.

Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intelligence of an unwieldy, stupid, and violent animal.

Both of these shared secret exchange mechanisms are unwieldy.

In any event , maintenance of a large resource bundle can quickly become unwieldy and more time- consuming than you want .

While I do drink beer, I do not like drinking pints, I find the glasses unwieldy &inelegant, &most halves aren't any better.

Even a country as coolly efficient as Denmark has struggled to cope with such an unwieldy event.

Also, if the application has been around for a while the architecture can become unwieldy.

Inter-governmental bodies could expand, sometimes to ungainly and unwieldy proportions, but could not shrink to more manageable numbers.

The result brings an end to an unwieldy four-year "grand coalition" between the CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD).

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

The device must have been unwieldy; the man rested it on his shoulder to steady it.

Tellingly, the field of interface design even has an unwieldy name: it is known as "human-computer interaction" , or HCI.

None examines the movement's basic goals in depth; instead, they exemplify its unwieldy belief in letting every voice be heard.

In the end, the task force operation proved too unwieldy and was allowed to expire, and we couldn't make the hundred-day deadline anyway.

There are reasons to go beyond the usual recycling: Unwieldy household toss-outs take up tons of space in landfills.

Meiceerde big unwieldy , facing nimble vanguard when often is fed up the suffering.

The European Central Bank faces the difficult task of running monetary policy over an unwieldy currency area.

Although unwieldy, this does correctly match the predicate on the server and return the expected value.

Merchants and citizens struggled to fulfil their obligations with unwieldy piles of metal.

Although you can do everything with a single XPath if statement, the code will be unwieldy.

In my view, we simply can't have government organs and military commands that are so swollen and unwieldy.

But they are unwieldy for the sorts of far-flung wars it has been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Large maps which must be unfolded are unwieldy to use in the field.

But it does make for hopelessly unwieldy governing coalitions.

For isolated cells and other groups, conventional military weapons are unwieldy and often ineffective.

France's PSA Peugeot Citroë n, though unwieldy, is not about to disappear either.

The larger and more unwieldy stone tools of the past were capable of crude cutting and carving only.

We use the prefixes because URIs and URLs can be pretty unwieldy.

Flexo business card printing and membership card making way more unwieldy.

A hand-held ring (1) is added, which solves the problems that current rubber shoes are unwieldy, and inconvenient for carrying.

Before long, they found that their home-brewed lists were becoming too long and unwieldy.

Additional, a few unwieldy things are put on the balcony, want to take certain safety precaution, lest thing drops a person.

Unfortunately, this process is indescribably unwieldy and probably unsuitable for a project such as this.

But being forced to answer that question for every patient proved unwieldy.

That greatly simplifies the problem, so that rather than being nearly impossible it becomes merely unwieldy.

For example, this would become unwieldy with a large number of users, so a search-based system would be better.

A major weakness is that it rapidly becomes unwieldy as the scope of one's behavioral consequences widens.

Flaws range from a "culture of amateurism" in management to an unwieldy legal system, the government agency says.

OK, the bed may be too unwieldy or expensive to replace.

Broadly focused reviews can also become unwieldy to present, maintain and understand.

An overhaul of Greece's corrupt and unwieldy tax administration has been delayed.

Even in the one unwieldy sentence quoted above, she makes three elementary mistakes.

But the program was unwieldy, inelegantly large and clumsy.

"When a team has more than 80 members, it gets very unwieldy, " he says.

Crude way, unwieldy vehicles carrying them to dress plain strange people to the outside world.

But how does one hold and control two very long and unwieldy sheets of foam?

Her two guns were too unwieldy for accurate shooting.

This is a common approach to representing queries in RDF, although it gets unwieldy as queries get more complex.

The huge potted plant was so unwieldy that we just left it where it was.

It is too unwieldy for practical calculations.

But that's a little unwieldy.

It's much less unwieldy than a bag of rice, which is what the online help forums I consulted suggested (and which, by the way, didn't work).

By 1851 their number had increased to 15, and it was becoming unwieldy to consider them all planets.

While the G8 was often seen as too unwieldy to take effective decisions, the G20 is likely to prove even more painstaking.

The answer is that India is a vast, unwieldy, open democracy ruled by a coalition of 20 parties.

The fixes can make models complex and unwieldy, confusing traders or deterring them from taking up new ideas.

Admittedly, the former syntax is more unwieldy than the latter and, in general, multiple stdout redirection is used far more often.

At that time network turning on speed was slow, the band width was limited, video equipment both unwieldy and expensive.

l mammoth: is applied to something of clumsy or unwieldy hugeness

call him , call him here ! kutuzov sat with one leg out of bed and his unwieldy , corpulent body propped on the other leg bent under him

But he is considered rather ineffectual and unlikely to deliver the goods, especially since he heads an unwieldy coalition of nine parties

The bigger the release, the more unwieldy it becomes (more dependencies, more planning, more disruption. )

the unwieldy bureaucracy of centralized government

we get our first glimpse of the average joe ' s squad , sporting unwieldy uniforms

But ordinary cylinder gear reducer bulky, unwieldy structure;

The Tibetan horn may be the world's most unwieldy instrument,

this can get to be unwieldy pretty quickly