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Now rather than call this by its unwieldy catalog name, we briefly called it "Rama," after the cylindrical spacecraft that passed through the solar system in Arthur C. Clarke's classic science fiction story in 1973.
The goals are an unwieldy set of indicators, goals and targets, but they also include the challenges our world faces.
Narrator: Computers, once the unwieldy tools of accountants and other geeks, escaped the backrooms to enter the media fracas.
From the fertile imagination which brought you the irresistible HERCULES (1983), comes its even more preposterous (read goofier) sequel: right off the bat, we get another unwieldy "beginning of time" prologue which even contrives to completely contradict these same events as set up in the first film!; a condensed montage of highlights from same is soon followed by a SUPERMAN-like scrolling credits sequence.
That ocean-liner seen in reel one is THE LEVIATHAN the monster ship the US won from the Germans in WW1 that was so huge and unwieldy that crews were nervous wrecks trying to wrestle with it upon the Atlantic.
The bad news is that it's still a bit of an unwieldy beast.
A project of serious ambition, and perhaps foolhardiness, the filmmaker is able to mend together seven tumultuous years of following around two unwieldy rock groups.
And, if you think about it, this makes sense, as the horns would make such a helmet unwieldy and difficult to wear.
Throw in an old estate with jungle animals, a maimed veiled lady (possibly borrowed from The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger)a murderous husband, a wife driven mad and all other sorts of wackiness that not only was never in the original story, but which just makes the whole piece unwieldy and a mess.
Unless the Bank’s next president has a clear vision of the way ahead, and the gravitas to withstand the institution’s internal pressures, he or she will be swallowed up by its complex machinery and unwieldy processes.
While adopting a new treaty may look like an unwieldy process, ill-suited to managing a fast-moving modern financial crisis, it is the only way to generate legitimacy for the institutions that are needed to address that crisis – in particular to provide reassurance that transfers will not be indefinite and unlimited.
Renegotiating more than 50 treaties would be unwieldy, but Ukraine would benefit enormously by renegotiating just one: the US-Ukraine investment treaty.
The US spends 1% of its GDP annually simply to administer its complex, unwieldy insurance system.
Over the years, as the number of GGE member states increased from the original 15 to 20 and then to 25, the group became more unwieldy, and political issues became more intrusive.
But how much power they really wield in the G7 is debatable: America's President, Secretaries of State and Treasury, and the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve almost certainly get their way more easily in a large, unwieldy group than they would in a smaller meeting where Europe spoke with a single voice.
But such schemes should not be dismissed in the developing world, where conditions are such that they could offer an affordable alternative to administratively unwieldy and ineffective welfare programs.
The unwieldy and deeply imperfect 2010 Dodd Frank legislation, with its thousands of pages of provisions, is a stopgap measure; few serious people view it as a long-term solution.
If we embrace too many targets – and especially an unwieldy 169 – we risk doing a disservice to the world’s neediest people.
Yar’Adua and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are struggling to stamp their authority on an unwieldy and restive country of 140 million people, and the government views rapid growth as a means to achieving that aim.
This is a very expensive, unwieldy way to achieve a very small reduction in temperatures.
As the 2009 UN climate-change summit in Copenhagen demonstrated, meetings of 192 states are often unwieldy and subject to bloc politics and tactical moves by largely extraneous players that otherwise lack the resources to solve functional problems.
Seventeen separate goals may seem unwieldy, but their cumulative effect should mean that no topic or constituency falls through the cracks.
Indeed, while China’s infamous five-year planning cycle may prove unwieldy and ineffective in other countries, it undoubtedly signals the state’s return to the market – and poses a serious challenge to trade liberalization.
The bilateral nature of the talks makes them less unwieldy than the ever-expanding TPP.
While the situation undoubtedly remains tense and unwieldy, religion’s waning political role may create an opening for progress, much as, say, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman’s willingness to discard fundamentalist imperatives favors modernization.
If the World Bank is to survive, its management must streamline its complicated and unwieldy bureaucracy, fixing what internal reviews described over a decade ago as “fragmentation, duplication, and delay” in assurance, safeguards, and fiduciary processes.
Italy is led by an unwieldy left-right coalition that is resisting EU budget rules.
As Borges wryly notes, subsequent generations could find no practical use for such an unwieldy map.
A practical way forward here is to establish a "European Security Council" to operate as a steering committee between the EU Council (which will have an unwieldy 25 members after this May's expansion) and the future European Foreign Minister envisaged by the draft constitution.
Even if the UN’s large institutional bureaucracy can be unwieldy at times, its effectiveness ultimately depends on its most influential members.