1.   And the early bindings were a cumbersome system of straps that tended to slip off heels or come undone.

2.   Aviation experts have long recognized that progress in this field is slow, the result of a cumbersome regulatory system and various industry practices.

3.   He also introduced simplicity to an excessively cumbersome system of checks and balances.

4.   Retailers like allowances because they offset a cumbersome system for returning flawed merchandise or sharing advertising costs.

5.   That cumbersome system has rendered the group less cost-efficient than Boeing, which as a single corporate entity has one management.

6.   That cumbersome system has rendered the group less efficient than Boeing, which as a single corporate entity has one management.

7.   The agents blame lawyers and the cumbersome system of contract drafting that lawyers have perpetuated here for generations.

8.   The reforms collapsed because they were simply too confusing and too sweeping for our cumbersome political system to digest in the brief span of one congressional term.

9.   Until now, all voter registrations were done by hand and compiled in big binders, a cumbersome system that mades fraud harder to detect.

10.   Certainly trendsetting California, home of the hightech Silicon Valley, could come up with a less cumbersome system.