It is a cumbersome burden for Mr. Wazid, who has meat to cut and customers waiting.

Now, the lack of sleep has become an immense, weighty burden, more cumbersome than my backpacks full of clothes and equipment, slowing my thoughts and magnifying disasters.

At intervals, when he met an occasional wayfarer, he would ask questions about a tall man who had a consumptive cough, and who was carrying a cumbersome burden under his arm.

They believed governments were cumbersome burdens and they wanted governments to stay out of the lives of individuals.

But those working on an I.B.M. PC or a compatible governed by MS-DOS, often find the operating system a rather cumbersome burden.

There was silence as he carefully placed his cumbersome felt-wrapped burden down and glanced triumphantly around the room.

She was down at the bows and canting at an angle of twenty degrees, the diesel motor screaming angrily and her single propeller threshing frantically, trying to pull her out from under her cumbersome burden.

In courts from California to Texas to New York, a growing immigrant population has placed a cumbersome and costly burden on the judicial system.

Though the teams remain incomplete, it appears almost certain that neither Ballesteros nor Kite will attempt to shoulder the increasingly cumbersome burden of being a playing captain.