But like many, he conceded that the case has been handled clumsily.

Some say dealings with Turkey have been clumsily handled for nearly a year.

If handled clumsily, it runs the risk of chilling promising research.

But he understood, too, that when something fragile was handled clumsily, it broke.

We can understand these firms' dismay - yet even if the decision has been clumsily handled, it was still the correct one to make.

Nearly as important, though clumsily handled, is funding for regional maximum security prisons.

The execution was clumsily handled; it took two hours for some of them to strangle.

Too often here, however, the ocean's bounty was clumsily handled or put in competition with other ingredients.

The government has been roundly criticized for clumsily handling the rescue effort.

"You're much too fragile to be handled so clumsily."