David Shulkin

If there is evidence that an employee has broken the law, caused harm to veterans, or have violated the public trust, they should be terminated immediately. Instead, due to overly cumbersome and lengthy arbitrations as well as extensive bureaucratic red tape, VA has not been able to remove employees as quickly as we would have liked.

American Public Servant

David Cameron

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.

British Politician

William Mougayar

For the first time, companies can be their own payment processors without the cumbersome or costly aspects of traditional financial settlement options. Tokens offer a much lower barrier for processing end-to-end transactions inside a given market.

Canadian Businessman

Carlos Ghosn

Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.

Brazilian Businessman

Lawrence Lessig

This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

American Educator

Benigno Aquino III

Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.

Filipino Politician

Barry Ritholtz

The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

American Author

Heather Mac Donald

Obamacare's terrifyingly cumbersome, competition-hostile apparatus for controlling medical costs is one of its most obvious flaws.

American Editor

Guy Fieri

I've never been an apron fan; it's all too cumbersome to me.

American Businessman

Neelam Kothari

The whole process of getting cards printed is so cumbersome.

Use 'cumbersome' to describe objects that are hard to move or handle because of their weight or size.

Physical Burden

'Cumbersome' is handy when talking about items that take up too much space, making areas hard to navigate.

Spatial Awareness

Items aren't momentarily cumbersome; the term implies a prolonged or continuous state of difficulty in handling.

Prolonged Effort

Apply 'cumbersome' to processes or systems that are inefficient and slow down progress or decision-making.

Inefficient Systems

Use the word when tasks involve unnecessary steps or complexity that could be streamlined.

Complexity in Task

'Cumbersome' can be used metaphorically to describe abstract concepts like relationships.

Metaphorical Use

 These are big and cumbersome, taking only one frame at a time before you have to change the film. To check the focus, you have to put your head under a black cloth and use a magnifying glass. So as I photographed Rob using this very old technology, he filmed me using the camera in his eye, somewhat the opposite end of the technology spectrum. But I wanted to delve deeper

Meditations on the...

 If a numeral appeared before one with a higher value, it would be subtracted rather than added. But even with this innovation, it was still a cumbersome method for writing large numbers. The way to a more useful and elegant system lay in something called positional notation.

A brief history of...

 there are no vaccines and there are no therapies. And there are very few labs in the world that are capable of working with those agents. So what is it like to work in the lab? It's fun sometimes. It's cumbersome all the time. And everything takes about

Risk Takers: Working...

 Characters are often found representing quantities that are unknown, and the relationships between variables. They also stand in for specific numbers that show up frequently but would be cumbersome or impossible to fully write out in decimal form.

Where do math symbols...

 are a little bit slow and a little bit cumbersome. But the next generation is going to be so much better and so much faster. Cryptocurrencies are the first step to a world with a global programmable money. And in a world with programmable money,

The future of money PIPE...

 Instead of a fitness indicator, scientists invoke a handicap principle. The most commonly cited example of a handicap is the peacock's tail. This beautiful but cumbersome tail doesn't exactly help the peacock

How your brain decides...

 The importance of this is that this is -- I can see some of you starting to look worried, because you think it's a slow and cumbersome body -- but what the United Nations can do is give us some neutrality,

Karen Armstrong: 2008...

 The bicycle offered them a way of freedom. How do you ride it? With great courage and dexterity, of which you are very capable. And how do you peddle wearing such cumbersome things? Carefully.

How Bicycles Changed...

 behavior of the boats was a useful guide to the whereabouts of the herring and because they don't need cumbersome nets the whales can get in quick and grab some action ahead of the competition

Killer Whales and Sonar...

 It's immediate, vital and intimate, as well as being amorphous and cumbersome. And yet, it's so easily forgotten. Climate change is the collective self-portrait of humanity.