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unwieldy
1. The ineffectiveness of the ―United‖ Nations in brokering ―the peace‖ could be traced to some undefined moment in history when the United States and its European Allies—there was such a time!—abdicated their leadership positions that had become too unwieldy, or perhaps they simply grew weary or complacent or both and decided to observe geo-political events from the sidelines, passing the torch to inept, incipiently corrupt Third World nations lacking the proven capacity to govern by example
2. He had given it the unwieldy name of
3. It is unwieldy enough to have target authorization requests come up from J-3 Operations at MACV, in conjunction with Seventh Air Force, through CINCPAC, without being shunted off to a side office such as mine
4. Life dreams are usually large and unwieldy and so the wise person knows how to break up these dreams into bite-sized chunks of a suitable size for our limited minds
5. There was demand all right, but not for too expensive and unwieldy local cars, and the mighty British automotive industry is history
6. unwieldy an object as a shipyard in space
7. This quickly becomes unwieldy
8. It became it’s own inspiration and by weight of time, it has now become a quite unwieldy narrative
9. “Just for everyone’s protection,” Wickland said as he motioned for David to be seated and proceeded to open the lid of the nearly unwieldy metal box that measured approximately ten inches wide by twelve inches long by six inches deep
10. Though the printing press was developed centuries earlier in China, the challenge of assembling the great variety of moveable type necessary to represent the unwieldy Chinese system of writing proved a great hindrance to prolific Chinese printing, whereas the small alphabets of Europe were much more easily managed
11. Tina looked over the unwieldy task before her and
12. populous face full of unwieldy pimples sprouting in the
13. But from one cause or another they are left out in the cold, passive recipients and not active members, in a huge ecclesiastical corporation,�sleeping partners, and not working agents in an unwieldy and ill-managed concern
14. A management that simply follows the wishes of knowledge workers rather than directs them can result in an unwieldy situation in which the
15. Graphics and animations, when appropriately rendered, can decrease the time required for knowledge workers to grasp complex processes and allow nonexperts to verify the accuracy of relationships that would have been unwieldy to describe with tables of data
16. And I don't know that it is not a nicer sort of soul to have inside one's plodding body than an unwieldy, overgrown thing, chiefly water and air and lightly changeable stuff, so unsubstantial that it flops--forgive the word, but it does flop--on to other souls in search of sympathy and support and comfort and all the rest of the things washer-women waste no time looking for, because they know they wouldn't find them
17. was studying was so unwieldy that he had propped it with
18. Still, she managed to give me some idea of her three or four hard-working days, of her trying to pull into shape and coordinate all the different and unwieldy demands of the various groups who would be attending the ceremony
19. In south America, the Spanish not only robbed, pillaged, murdered, killed, and raped the native inhabitants: but their cultures and their legal systems as well… and after destroying their cultures, replaced them with their own vastly more corrupt culture and a single corrupt language that is so unwieldy; you cannot express a logical thought in any logical sequence
20. And the more everything accumulates, the more unwieldy it gets, the more inequities are created, the more complex things become, the more unmanageable human society becomes
21. Many of the pikemen abandoned the unwieldy pikes
22. By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so
23. which the masters have a better command than the more unwieldy,
24. I didn’t have to chip my own steps, but those of the men were awkwardly placed and slippery and sometimes so deep that my boot got trapped inside and I’d lose my balance and fall, my ice ax so unwieldy it felt more like a burden than an aid
25. By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so critically pointed, that, feeling him fore-right against the tender opening, a favourable motion from me met his timely thrust, by which the lips of it, strenuously dilated, gave way to his thus assisted impetuosity, so that we might both feel that he had gained a lodgment
26. Then I plainly saw what I had to trust to: it was one of those just true-sized instruments, of which the masters have a better command than the more unwieldy, inordinate sized one are generally under
27. so unwieldy a vehicle as the wheels within wheels of the factions which the Yankee reformator, and that projectile Mr Plan, as he was called by Mr Peevie, had inserted among us
28. Unstable and unwieldy in its present role, because of its length
29. I could not have accomplished it, nor could Summerlee, if Challenger had not gained the summit (it was extraordinary to see such activity in so unwieldy a creature) and there fixed the rope round the trunk of the considerable tree which grew there
30. From time to time the little ones played round their parents in unwieldy gambols, the great beasts bounding into the air and falling with dull thuds upon the earth
31. But Challenger had some unwieldy stuff which he ardently desired to take with him, and one particular package, of which I may not speak, which gave us more labor than any
32. Patty tucked her hair, dry and unwieldy, behind her ears and opened the door
33. My Belly was so large, i’faith, that ’twas almost impossible for me to fulfill my weekly Obligations to Lord Bellars—for I could scarce clasp him ’round the Waist, much less allow him to lye with me in any but the most bestial of Postures, and e’en that one grew unwieldy in Time
34. As the years have passed and data storage requirements have increased at an exponential level, it has become unwieldy for a personal computer to contain enough space and power for the many drives used in modern storage arrays
35. Jess went near the end, and only realised when Glain flinched that he’d smeared her with Portero’s sticky blood, and then he was over, tumbling down a hill and up to his feet with the unwieldy weight of the pack on his back to overbalance him yet again when the cobbles of the street below proved slick
36. As such, companies keep increasing earnings, or cash flows become vulnerable to lower returns as the business becomes bigger and more unwieldy, and, if highly profitable, it tends to attract new competition
37. That’s a bit unwieldy and impractical for individual investors in my view
38. What if there are multiple dividend payments over the life of the option? And what if our binomial tree consists of many time periods? Because each dividend payment generates a new set of binomial prices, the number of calculations required to value an option will be greatly increased, perhaps to the point of being unwieldy
39. If the unit value is an unwieldy number, the value can be adjusted by including a multiplier
40. The boar ran after him, but he, skipping around, closed the door behind it, and there the furious beast was caught, for it was much too unwieldy and heavy to jump out of the window
41. Skeletons were strange, unwieldy things
42. And troops are less and less to be relied on to suppress insurrection, and it becomes more and more evident that generals, officers, and soldiers are only figure-heads in triumphal processions, the plaything of a sovereign, a sort of unwieldy and expensive corps-de-ballet
43. Our seamen would cost us at least double of what is the expense of her seamen to Great Britain; and it required her utmost exertions to pay the interest of the enormous debt with which her unwieldy navy had saddled her
44. Still I believe an apparatus replete with similar advantages, but less unwieldy, less liable to fracture; and having fewer junctures to make at each operation, has been a great desideratum with every practical chemist
