How To Use Bureaucratic In A Sentence

It would not be so bad if these tests were actually based on science or some objective measure but they are usually exercises in bureaucratic futility. Barack Obama Elected President of the United States | One Year Later...What's Changed?
Is that something you really want to see, that kind of ossified thinking in a bureaucratic organization like Homeland Security? CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2005
Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
One such is the following chart, which can be used to devise typical bureaucratic phrases that sound impressive but mean nothing.
One such is the following chart, which can be used to devise typical bureaucratic phrases that sound impressive but mean nothing.

In any unwieldy bureaucratic system there will be some in need who will be let down by officialdom. The Sun
Then the regional financial crisis hit and suddenly the air was full of accusations of bureaucratic ineptitude, corruption and outright dereliction of duty.
We also need to allow individuals and groups to determine their own identities free of bureaucratic classifications.
There are many reasons why IBM nearly went belly-up, not least the fact that Big Blue had become a bureaucratic monster.
It is one of a torrent of jargon words, phrases, clichés and bureaucratic gobbledygook that have grown to clutter our language.
The Mac's graphical user interface, soon replicated in Microsoft Windows, saving the world from the even more bureaucratic MS-DOS, was radical in its elegance and ease. William Bradley: Steve Jobs: Hardly a Perfect Person, Perhaps a Perfect Icon
You try and gift something to the nation and meet a blank wall of bureaucratic indifference. Times, Sunday Times
Yet he recognized that he needed active assistants to break through the lines of bureaucratic retrenchment, and he often used plenipotentiaries to investigate, control, and bully on his behalf.
India, on the other hand, has progressively unshackled its economy from bureaucratic controls since 1991 to become one of the fastest growing economies with an average growth rate of over six percent in recent years.
Still, Samsung supporters contend the company is actually the victim of bureaucratic excesses in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its counterparts in Europe and Australia.
To assume simple bureaucratic bungling is simply simple-minded. Balkinization
Similarly, no scribe in antiquity could have worked with such a typology, for every variation in the objects could never be registered in bureaucratic discourse.
The first cynicism argues that the ANC government is creating a 'technicist' approach to governance, meaning that all policy is reduced to technical jargon and bureaucratic reasoning. CONTENTS:
The notion that bureaucratic infighting and occasional abruptness of manner should disqualify one from high office is laughable.
The partnership purchases workers' compensation and liability insurance, which reduces the bureaucratic burden on participating companies.
Yet an important aspect of bureaucratic power is relationships with people who receive its actions or use its services.
A socialist government could no more do without a bureaucratic apparatus than could a capitalist one. Politics, Planning and the State
Mansfieldâ€ ™ s lecture is a reading from the first chapter of his book, which argues that manlinessâ€ "what he defines as sexual rapacity, an appetite for war, a general bull-in-a-china-shop heedlessnessâ€" is preferable to the namby-pamby faggotistical mores being pressed on us by radical feminism and the castratory mandates of late capitalism / twenty-first-century bureaucratic culture. Harper's Magazine
In “Lost Continent”, a time traveler seeking refuge from a war-torn land faces hostility and bureaucratic incompetence. Subterranean Press » 2009 » January
In both cases large, impersonal, bureaucratic structures proved incapable of responding to the needs of a more diverse population and their non-material aspirations.
This political and bureaucratic game of musical chairs has the entire world on a knife edge, continued uncertainty and lack of confident decision making worsening sentiment.
Still trying to interpret the 1071 pages in bureaucratic form, No Pubic Option! | My[confined]Space
This "imbedded" piece, something we haven't seen much of since the original Iraqi invasion - showed some of our most experienced troops at their best, facing serious, daily peril and explaining the exasperating bureaucratic limitations imposed by the Pakistanis. 60 Minutes Goes "Imbedded" in Afghanistan
You don't want to be bogged down with all those bureaucratic rules and regulations?
Bureaucratic foot-dragging delayed the formal opening of an investigation for months.
It became logically possible for bureaucratic structures to perform all four input and all three output functions.
If this is not the case, then the bureaucratic apparatus triumphs again, and the political leaders and reformers lose. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
The government has created a bureaucratic monster.
Then came the idea of the ‘post-bureaucratic age’ — in itself the kind of unwieldy phrase you might expect a bureaucrat to use. John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
Its bureaucratic structures are fine for dealing with repetitive tasks but it cannot face new challenges.
Even those who need emergency hospital care will be subjected to the caprices and bureaucratic diktat of the soldiers guarding the gates.
In this company you have to go through complex bureaucratic procedures just to get a new pencil.
The Cody Canal continued to suffer from bureaucratic failures and misfortunes.
Or it may be that most of this regulation was merely a bureaucratic scam and a leaden weight on small and medium-sized businesses. Times, Sunday Times
Without a clear approach, companies could see themselves involved in a bureaucratic quagmire.
Probably it was also in this way that Byzantine titles and ceremonial were introduced into Central Europe, and that Central and Eastern European official life assumed its hierarchical and bureaucratical character. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
The Democratic Republic is very bureaucratic, very much full of class distinctions.
It might be cost, it might be risk or it might be some sort of bureaucratic incompetence. Times, Sunday Times
The bureaucratic boundaries of the nation-state complicate intimate transnational exchange.
And he should not be making excuses for his idiot cronies or relying on politesse and bureaucratic snafus to explain why he was late when the crisis hit.
Their modern-day equivalents are merely bureaucratic nonentities completely remote from everyday life.
More will become involved if given the opportunity to experiment free of regulatory restraints and bureaucratic interference.
The bureaucratic control by government over the settlement process in Australia caused the demise of the common law system of water allocation by riparian right and the appropriation of rights to water by the government.
Simply put, he thinks the NCAA's "immoral and criminal" bureaucratic handling of its finances and its "blatant hypocrisy, shamateurism and systematic ripoff" of youngsters must end. The Hoops Are Made Of Gold
It would be a bureaucratic nightmare anyway. Times, Sunday Times
He is a writer of fiction, a self taught hardware guru, and a hater of all things bureaucratic and process-oriented.
Regarding regulatory czar Cass Sunstein's Aug. 23 op-ed, "Washington Is Eliminating Red Tape" : The savings outlined by Mr. Sunstein don't even represent one-quarter of 1% of total private-sector compliance costs—and that assumes that the savings are realized and not just bureaucratic finagling for political purposes. Mr. Sunstein Can't Be Serious About Cutting Red Tape
Faced with centrally organized and bureaucratic state apparatuses, dissident actors can adjust organizationally, moving towards more networked forms of organization.
The procedure for getting funding approval is so bureaucratic!
We can characterise this as rule by the non-elected with power in the hands of a bureaucratic elite.
In this secondary category falls financial control - seen by many as boring, bureaucratic and uncreative.
But the bureaucratic muddle began after ministers farmed the project out to the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities, the umbrella body for councils.
The procedure for getting funding approval is so bureaucratic!
Both Ratzinger and Cheney just happened to be already occupying positions where saying they just 'lucked' into a job is a cynical circumlocution - this has nothing to do with any American election (well, indirectly in terms of Vice President Cheney), but everything to do with perfect bureaucratic positioning. Is That Legal?: "Aryanization" and the Question of German "Coercion"
I expect every possible bureaucratic, budgetary and techno-gibberish obstacle possible to be put in COTS-D's way. A Big First Step for COTS-D Today - NASA Watch
The idea that our home may be demolished is undeniably upsetting, but the even greater threat is the possibility that this process could bog down in an interminable morass of political and bureaucratic indecision, with no clear answers at all. Argh!
At first they used their political power to drive Hindus and Sikhs out of the bureaucratic, economic and educational spheres.
Surely, he cannot any longer be expected to bear the full brunt of our judicial and bureaucratic bungles.
It is not much more than a year ago that he dismissed the UN as an inefficient, bureaucratic organisation incapable of decision or action.
Such a perspective may reflect a basic distrust of the bureaucratic structures of many unions.
The journey was physically demanding and fraught with bureaucratic hazards. Times, Sunday Times
If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic chicanery.
That's a farcical bureaucratic morass. The Sun
But whatever the smart individuals inside these organizations might think, bureaucratic inertia is killing those golden-egg geese.
This would suggest that competence in technical skills, while an important ingredient of the bureaucratic role, is not essential to it. Politics, Planning and the State
With no bureaucratic quota in their way, fishermen 'commercialised' the sea bass, subjecting it to untraditional fishing pressure. Times, Sunday Times
The other, which was probably unintended though wholly predictable, has been to create a bureaucratic apparatus which has brought many strong men and women to their knees.
The copayments, user fees, information barriers, and bureaucratic logjams that impair access, especially by the poor, must be eliminated.
This is but an extension of the expertise which Max Weber claimed to be the foundation of bureaucratic power.
The organisations also require ownership from the people on the ground and time to develop before we move headlong into another straitjacketed, bureaucratic institution.
HOLMES: And General, forgive us if we are wrong here, because you'd think as both kind of harping on this point, because it sounds like this is the same bureaucratic mess that seems to happened sometimes that slows things down when a crisis happens. CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2010
It is precisely this sublation of the soldier into the paternal, the military into the familial/bureaucratic that informs both the treaty ceremony and many of the projections. Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
I know, I know, the Teheran embassy wasn’t built in a day, but it still seems like Ross’s would-be billet is an odd bureaucratic entity. Her Family And Friends Treated Him Like An Ambassador | ATTACKERMAN
One such is the following chart, which can be used to devise typical bureaucratic phrases that sound impressive but mean nothing.
NASA, that bureaucratic 800-lb gorilla, is struggling under a very specific series of mandates called the VSE. Obama Speaks of NASA Being Adrift - NASA Watch
To avoid the rigid, vertical organizational structure of large cleaning firms, Sonix contracted with small, nonunion cleaning firms with a decentralized bureaucratic structure.
You try and gift something to the nation and meet a blank wall of bureaucratic indifference. Times, Sunday Times
The youthful Yu Hua is something of a wise guy and a schemer, pitting himself against bureaucratic inanities. Cultural Lexicon
Many technical and bureaucratic and especially financial challenges remained, but the occulter plan now had a little blue sky. First Contact
Mary Ann Orlando, an aide to the late S arge Shriver, recalled being ready to walk off the job, frustrated by bureaucratic resistance to starting the Peace Corps - when the president stuck his head out of his office: "Hey, kid, where are you going? A lunch to talk of JFK
You wouldn't believe the bureaucratic hoops you need successfully to jump when you're renovating a derelict.
Small firms are choking to death in a planning process increasingly marked by bureaucratic muddle and delay.
Private practice is burdened by bureaucratic demands in a hostile climate.
Verizon's offerings occupy a special category of bureaucratic baroqueness. Samsung Galaxy Tab: review, with video
Mangano described a complicated, time-consuming bureaucratic process that the insurance programs are required to undertake to set their reimbursement rates.
Many Danes have a deeply ingrained scepticism about the European Union, seen as the bureaucratic and inefficient blueprint for a European superstate.
Thus economic models of bureaucratic behaviour usually involve a theory of legislative behaviour in which politicians aim to maximize their electoral support.
The revalidation industry seems to have become a self-perpetuating bureaucratic nightmare. Times, Sunday Times
So a certain strand of German culture rejected such aspects of the Enlightenment as individual rights and a more liberal, democratic political tradition, while embracing the notion of rational, bureaucratic management of society. An Insidious Evil
By creating a legal and bureaucratic route to union representation and contract negotiations, the National Labor Relations Act largely obviated recognition strikes.
Large companies are slow, bureaucratic, unresponsive and ineffective.
In any unwieldy bureaucratic system there will be some in need who will be let down by officialdom. The Sun
We are failing them, through a mixture of political neglect, bureaucratic inertia and cultural bias. Times, Sunday Times
MPs are wound into a sticky web of bureaucratic indifference to other people's money. Times, Sunday Times
Democracy is incompatible with excessive, bureaucratic regimentation of social life.
The bureaucratic swamp soon recovered its grip.
Bit by bit the German bureaucratic mill is grinding down the problems and finding solutions. Times, Sunday Times
It is also a story of budgetary and bureaucratic politics producing a device that, however miraculous, wound up being slower, balkier and less useful than it might have been. We Can See Clearly Now
But there's no proof that it would be free of bureaucratic bungles, or serve as a more effective early warning system against potential terrorist attacks.
The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
From Shachtman he inherited his signature theories of democratic Marxism and bureaucratic collectivism, as well as his socialist outrage at the communist perversion of socialism.
Diplomats believe that bureaucratic delays are inevitable.
Blagojevich called the misappropriation "a bureaucratic mistake. News
Promised bureaucratic and rural reforms will take effect only slowly, not least because corruption is endemic. Times, Sunday Times
There is a vast continuum between bureaucratic behavior and entrepreneurial behavior, and government can surely shift its position on that spectrum.
The sheer size of the project speaks volumes about the overly bureaucratic weight of Tokyo's government.
The Cabinet as an institution does not have an adequate bureaucratic infrastructure to enable it to perform a coordinating role.
The bureaucratic layers between the U.S. forces and the secretary of defense were severed.
The extremely unedifying combination of the episcopal gutlessness on display in DC and the bureaucratic contempt for the flock on display here has a number of people livid.
This impersonal and bureaucratic approach, which is implicitly untrusting of physician clinical judgment, is problematic.
Top company executives say they are well aware of the tendency of big companies to become more bureaucratic.
Nowhere in Britain has bureaucratic centralization proceeded with more pace than in Scotland.
The political and bureaucratic Establishment that has so consistently mis-analysed the process of European integration has a related vision.
He had no great hopes for this mission to the City of Mexico; indeed, he feared that his continued employment had less to do with a keen governmental interest in undescribed flora than with bureaucratic oversight. Excerpt: The Gates of The Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
The more formal and bureaucratic the process becomes, the less inclined they may be to bother. Times, Sunday Times
Further down the bureaucratic hierarchy, the classic rational image of the bureaucrat seems to prevail, but in the boundary layer something paradoxical can happen. Politics, Planning and the State
But the forms and procedures have been criticised as bureaucratic and costly. Times, Sunday Times
Soon the entire situation spirals out of control into a tragicomic mess of blunders, language barriers, bureaucratic snafus, and spin control.
But the forms and procedures have been criticised as bureaucratic and costly. Times, Sunday Times
A government determined to spend more on infrastructure should by now have overcome planning and bureaucratic delays. Times, Sunday Times
Since online teachers are unencumbered by much of the disciplinary and bureaucratic nonsense of brick-and-mortar schools, they can devote far more time to actual instruction.
Promised bureaucratic and rural reforms will take effect only slowly, not least because corruption is endemic. Times, Sunday Times
The journey was physically demanding and fraught with bureaucratic hazards. Times, Sunday Times
an ossified bureaucratic system
MPs are wound into a sticky web of bureaucratic indifference to other people's money. Times, Sunday Times
Some might conclude that such programmes may add bureaucratic layers and burden to an already overtaxed system.
There are two reasons for this: firstly, the process of medical decision making is now indistinguishable from other types of bureaucratic administration.
In the middle of all these bureaucratic doings, the hapless bus commuters suddenly find themselves shelterless from the elements during their wait for the erratic city buses.
He wanted complete control of the Staatsoper and was prepared to brook no bureaucratic interference. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
We must be careful this does not simply become a bureaucratic burden on universities. Times, Sunday Times
The new President was about to undergo his first experience of the bureaucratic steamroller.
Here we chart some of the biggest bureaucratic blunders of modern times. Times, Sunday Times
Even if it is bureaucratese, bureaucratic and grandiose.
If he did, the long bureaucratic process began. The Prisons We Deserve
In the end, the Irish troops found themselves utterly confused as they became pawns in a frustrating bureaucratic maze.
So that's a homocentric bureaucratic system going on and also perception within these districts and the people who are working this system is under blockage for this kind of effort. CNN Transcript May 7, 2008
A third question, incidentally, is the role of the Reno Justice Department, and Clinton Administration more broadly, in functionally encouraging these disastrous bureaucratic developments. Balkinization
But Arctic Bay residents have received little help and support in advancing their proposal, and their aspirations are now drowning in bureaucratic inertia.
That drive was undone by the ballot box, but it is unfortunately the case that bureaucratic ordinances are usually more permanent than ministerial fiats.
Intimidation and bureaucratic barracking soon followed. Patrick Galey: History Provides Comfort for Beleaguered UN Court
Citing the country's aggressive unions, widening wealth gaps, a faltering education system, low workforce participation and a public sector often paralyzed by bureaucratic red tape, the British magazine recently claimed that Israel's "engines of growth are punier than they look. Richard Z. Chesnoff: ISRAEL AT 61: A LESSON TO BE LEARNED
The lack of aid, bureaucratic indifference and outright corruption has fuelled widespread resentment and anger.
Strides have been made, she said, but civilian agencies remain hamstrung by bureaucratic rules that make it impossible to spend money quickly. Gates defends new Afghan war strategy
Bureaucratic procedures should also be relaxed in order to minimize the cost of corruption, collusion and nepotism.
Several participants from different countries were critical of what they called bureaucratic red tape at both central and regional government levels. Chapter 9
Conventional public administration sees the problem of bureaucratic power in these terms.
In my terms, bureaucratic bourgeoisies often turn into globalizing bureaucrats, politicians, and professionals with a little help from their friends in the transnational capitalist class.
Gender is a bureaucratic solution to an antisocial habit.
He has whittled away at the government's bureaucratic deadwood, eliminated many redundant agencies and unsnarled much of the red tape that has long made official business a nightmare. Silvio Slips Up
The assumption that large authorities are costly and bureaucratic is wrong, according to the Regional Council.
They were also rejected by the bureaucratic apparatuses which took over first the social democratic and later, under Stalin, the communist parties.
Here we chart some of the biggest bureaucratic blunders of modern times. Times, Sunday Times
But the world was to pay a price beyond imagining for the consolidation of bureaucratic misrule in the Soviet Union.
The author is convinced that the officers should be taught to think originally, to reject shopworn patterns and approaches, and to avoid bureaucratic quagmire.
We are trying to take this increasingly depersonalized, rapid-fire, bureaucratic world and make it feel like home again. Courtney E. Martin: Do It Anyway: The Top 10 Ways that the Next Generation is Shifting Activism
In the past there has been a tendency for government programmes to be highly prescriptive or bureaucratic. Times, Sunday Times
Charities say that they are less bureaucratic than the government and closer to the people who need the help most. Times, Sunday Times
The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human potential is through service in officialdom.
They would become even more bureaucratic and even more pedantic.
All choices are constrained choices reflecting differential bargaining power and position in relation to bureaucratic allocation systems. Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
At the very least he will face considerable bureaucratic scrutiny and delay. Times, Sunday Times
He had quit, he said, because he no longer knew what to say when head teachers complained about bureaucratic interference.
The Alliance deserves some credit; within the Alliance platform are the means to address delivering our government from its bureaucratic nightmare.
A totally critical framework does not allow space for constructive struggle with and against varied bureaucratic factions.
The partnership purchases workers' compensation and liability insurance, which reduces the bureaucratic burden on participating companies.
… Collectively these newcomers wielded billions of dollars of available capital, petawatts of imperious brainpower, a practiced disdain for bureaucratic pettifogs, and Olympian con ﬁ dence in their own judgment and capabilities. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
They are appalled by daily examples of bureaucratic waste and extravagance and the criminal abuse of their hard-earned taxes. The Sun
In addition to this, the bureaucratic leaderships do not facilitate bringing revolutionary Marxist educational mate rial to the ranks.
Successful projects require enormous cooperation and creativity to incorporate nontraditional activities into a rigid bureaucratic system.
You try and gift something to the nation and meet a blank wall of bureaucratic indifference. Times, Sunday Times
Nature's primal fury, man's unbridled fear, political apathy, bureaucratic inertia, rural angst, urban unconcern all found their way into the cascade of grief unleashed by the twenty-one poets.
Although arrestees who are not convicted can later have their DNA removed from databases, this would involve a bureaucratic process.
The bureaucratic delays also appear to have triggered a budget headache for the adjudicator. Times, Sunday Times
During time-critical events, this bureaucratic delay can result in missed opportunities by satellites with limited observation windows.
McAuliffe and six others on board perished as the cameras rolled, victims of stiff O-ring seals and feeble bureaucratic decisions. Challenger: 25 Years Later, A Still Painful Wound
Concerns that were aired by many transit executives last month were just a big bureaucratic misunderstanding, says Rep.
The Rational / Bureaucratic model can produce overly restrictive formal systems that stifle initiative and reduce responsiveness to change.
In sum, it was a bureaucratic time system.
It is easy to dismiss middle managers as bureaucratic pen-pushers.
On front after front, bureaucratic mandarins are deciding how everyday Europeans will live.
Military appointments, as well as bureaucratic and judicial appointments, have been made on political considerations by the two parties run by the two dynasties – Sheikh Hasina's Awami League (AL), inherited from her father, and Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), inherited from her husband (readers will recall how the Pakistan People's Party was 'willed' to her husband by Benazir Bhutto). The Dual Dictatorship
In many live phone-in shows with BBC World Radio and TV, and other major outlets, we in the large UN agencies are often contrasted with the small, “unbureaucratic” nongovernmental aid groups that “without administrative overhead and red tape can go straight to the needy with their relief.” A Billion Lives
In short, both nations must sharply reduce their traditional bureaucratic power.
The Treasure Island measure started as a simple bill to make what appeared to be a mundane bureaucratic change.
Alongside clerical errors and bureaucratic bungling are countless instances in which reliable recordkeeping has underpinned justice. Times, Sunday Times
For that kind of money, we deserve bureaucrats who aren't very bureaucratic.
Bureaucratic power has encroached upon the freedom of the individual.
Mr Netanyahu voiced regret yesterday for what he described as bureaucratic happenstance. Ireland.com Breaking News
He had a reputation among Washington insiders for being prickly, abrasive, brash, impatient, and intolerant of bureaucratic foot-dragging.
The prevalent mode of social interaction today is what David Riesman, in The Lonely Crowd, referred to as antagonistic cooperation, in which a cult of teamwork conceals the struggle for survival within bureaucratic organizations. Corrupt Sports: An Exchange
They are accustomed to consider democratic government as the best system of government and bureaucratic management as one of the great evils.
Sometimes we get too many laws, and bylaws and requirements and procedures that muddy our lives in bureaucratic paperwork and hoop. Best Careers For Criminals « Colleen Anderson
In other words, many people will have given up in confusion, disenfranchised by the pig-headed insistence on the procedure by a Government which has turned what was once a simple, enjoyable experience into a bureaucratic nightmare.
The history of the visual arts under Fascism includes the bureaucratic apparatus imposed by the regime, and the individual contributions of those who collaborated in varying degrees.

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