The once informal summits have become unwieldy.

Something more complicated, and unwieldy, appears increasingly likely.

After all, Pantan is but one member of a conglomerate of security firms called Oskord.

But there is a danger that the G 20 will now prove too unwieldy.

GE Aviation is part of the General Electric conglomerate, which is one of the world's largest corporations.

And another title would be Liop an da lapa, the unwieldy beast with two fins.

Critics accuse Thaksin of conflicts of interest, as his family owned telecommunications conglomerate holds sizeable investments in Myanmar.

As Mitsubishi built a broadly based conglomerate, it played a central role in the modernization of Japanese industry.

The US spends 1 of its GDP annually simply to administer its complex, unwieldy insurance system.

The three companies, jointly owned since 1922, were merged to form a new industrial conglomerate, Nokia Corporation, in 1967.

Narrator Computers, once the unwieldy tools of accountants and other geeks, escaped the backrooms to enter the media fracas.

Many participants indicated that they did not favour a system of periodic reports, which they considered to be too unwieldy.

rendered unwieldy through the ad hoc creation of teams and units in response to new programmatic mandates and operational concerns.

Within Africa, the South African conglomerate Eskom has contracted to run the Tanzania Electric Supply Company and the main power station in Zimbabwe.

Mittal, by contrast, is a conglomerate that has come out of nowhere to become the world s leading steel company in a mere two decades.

Charoen Pokphand, a domestic conglomerate that formerly focused on agribusiness, has expanded its business internationally with investments to such countries as China and Indonesia.

Saha Union Group, a conglomerate of 58 companies focusing on textile products, and Mitrphol Sugar, which deals in sugar products, have activities in China.

Large scale multilateralism, in which most of the world s 193 United Nations recognized countries meet to negotiate accords, has become too unwieldy.

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The EU Japan negotiations could be lithe in comparison. The bilateral nature of the talks makes them less unwieldy than the ever expanding TPP.

Over the medium term, it must take an axe to the thicket of unwieldy regulations that make businesses so dependent on an agile and cooperative bureaucracy.

I have a portfolio of over 2,000 images shot on three trips to Afghanistan in recent years and to keep track of them, I conceived of the rather unwieldy hashtag .

The Talaat Mustafa Group (TMG), a huge real estate conglomerate through which Mustafa made his billions, doesn't want any stockholders to worry just because the company's founder and namesake is under a death sentence.

Although the process may seem initially unwieldy and time consuming, participation by the poor is not only necessary to good governance but also to the effectiveness of the poverty reduction strategy papers.

It proposes to enlarge the Council's membership in both the permanent and non permanent categories so that it is large enough but not too unwieldy to be representative of the 191 Member nations.

Our fallback was the long, unwieldy globalvoicesonline.org, which we grew to love even as it spilled over the edges of our business cards and caused some people to refer to us as Global Voices Online .

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.

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.

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.

Anatoly Chubais, the father of Russian privatization in the 1990 s and the current head of the country s nano technology conglomerate RosNano, recently admitted that the prospects for political modernization in Russia are dim. Today, he said, no demand for it exists.

And politicians would have an opportunity to control the number and distribution of emission permits and the flow of billions of dollars in subsidies and sweeteners. This is a very expensive, unwieldy way to achieve a very small reduction in temperatures.

Instead of choosing between a body that was representative but too large and unwieldy to deal with emerging security situations, or one that was efficient at the expense of representativeness, they created a system with multiple bodies with different roles.

That day, international mainstream media reported on Goldman Sachs being hired by the Spanish government to evaluate banking conglomerate Bankia, taken over by the state earlier in May, and also about rumors of a referendum in Greece to ballot the membership in the Eurozone.

As the international community gears up for the next development agenda, the danger is that we let our ambition overpower our reason. If we embrace too many targets and especially an unwieldy 169 we risk doing a disservice to the world s neediest people.

The multilateral dialogue in which the States parties were engaged was, much like democracy, slow, unwieldy and at times frustrating, but it was far superior to any other approach in terms of the prospect of achieving equitable and therefore durable security solutions.

Drugs alone can't stop disease in sub Saharan Africa We need diagnostic tools to match. TED Senior Fellow Frederick Balagadde shows how we can multiply the power and availability of an unwieldy, expensive diagnostic lab by miniaturizing it to the size of a chip.

As it stands, the Silk Road Fund is unilateral, placing it in the same category as the China Development Bank and the state owned investment conglomerate CITIC. But the Chinese authorities have said that it is open for others to join, though that seems unlikely, given the scale of the Chinese commitment.