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  • VELSHI: One of the things you arrive at in your report is that there's just -- it's very unwielding the way the energy markets are regulated.

    CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2008 2008

  • The problem here, of course, is that if you were going to pay to check your first bag, I think you're going to see the things people carry on to planes becoming remarkably unwielding (ph).

    CNN Transcript May 27, 2008 2008

  • They returned, the unwielding co-stars of a propaganda play written and directed by their Iranian captors.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007 2007

  • It is beautifully written and language is accessible and unwielding.

    On big brother, racism, twins in Nigerian literature and reading House of Stone uknaija 2007

  • In the past I've always used the trusty old telephone book type guides like Novel & Short Story Writers Market and Jeff Hermann's Guide to Agents, expensive, unwielding tomes that were frequently out of date as soon as they hit the shelves.

    Agent Query. Jeff 2006

  • In the past I've always used the trusty old telephone book type guides like Novel & Short Story Writers Market and Jeff Hermann's Guide to Agents, expensive, unwielding tomes that were frequently out of date as soon as they hit the shelves.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Jeff 2006

  • Then dozens of random lives were manipulated -- odd, unlikely paths drawn for each of us through the otherwise unwielding quantum potentials -- and the residue of all that careful work leaves one man happily driving across a snow-covered landscape.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • Also those suits as they get water logged tend to be very heavy and very unwielding.

    CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2003 2003

  • The threesome made the building famous, despite the often unwielding layouts of most of the former police headquarters 'apartments.

    The Steinbergs Seek a Billionaire's House on Millionaire's Budget 2000

  • Such wielding of power in such an unwielding way is dictatorship.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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