1.   They are highly efficient and especially adroit at cutting out excessive steps and cumbersome procedures.

2.   If a competing offer is made, the first bidder will be hampered by the more cumbersome procedures under the Court Scheme.

3.   Scrapping cumbersome Customs procedures means Jerry can head straight for the customers.

4.   Although many more await bar admission, cumbersome procedures and bar association politics have stalled their certification.

5.   But the Chinese official, Wu Jichuan, has made it clear that Beijing can tie up foreign investors in cumbersome licensing procedures.

6.   Currently, the only pain medication covered for outpatients is administered by a pump, an often cumbersome procedure for elderly patients.

7.   In exchange, they will be allowed to devise their own pollution control plans without having to follow the usual cumbersome bureaucratic procedures.

8.   Inspectors say their effectiveness is sapped by cumbersome procedures, uncertain funding and turnover.

9.   Security officials later reinstated the two-hour rule, but scientists at Los Alamos say other cumbersome procedures remain.

10.   Technically, there are cumbersome procedures by which a committee can vote without the support of its chairman.