lumbering

Part of Melissa's punch stems from its slow pace: it is lumbering along slower than most people walk, at just three miles per hour or less.

If Europe can’t concentrate spending, its startups will struggle to grow or shake up the continent’s lumbering military sector as U.S. startups are doing in Washington, say investors and founders.

Climate change, he claimed to audible gasps, was "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" and was lumbering European countries with expensive energy costs compared to fossil fuels.

That summer, Fisher said, no matter what he did, the bears kept lumbering back into town.

And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.