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  • But red tape is still keeping him sidelined. The Sun
  • But red tape is still keeping him sidelined. The Sun
  • People are put off volunteering, he suggests, because of the increasing fear of litigation and frustration with the associated red tape.
  • An anemic supply chain, poor infrastructure, and government red tape have kept manufacturers away for years.
  • Red tape encumbered all our attempts at action.
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  • The deal is being held up by international red tape. The Sun
  • We have had gentlefolks down from London about it, men who argue and palaver, and wear high hats and are said to have long bills, and there is talk of a Government cutter to protect us, towed by red tape, and the trawlers are to cast their nets farther asea. Without Prejudice
  • The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
  • But any possible deal was scuppered by red tape. The Sun
  • The purveyance of alcohol requires a little bit more red tape … and more responsibility than most people think," says Matthews. 'Naysayers' prove strong for Michael Matthews, wine bar
  • Red tape means it now takes a year to get rid of them. The Sun
  • Who has time to read, never mind cope with, the mountain of red tape that spews out of Brussels: employment legislation, working time directives, discrimination laws, VAT rules, etc?
  • Secondly, we need to be encouraging more small businesses to hire employees by cutting red tape. The Sun
  • Secondly, we need to be encouraging more small businesses to hire employees by cutting red tape. The Sun
  • I devoured tapes and books on how to perform wudu (ablution before prayers).
  • 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
  • Even our people in Japan have been surprised by how we have cut through the red tape.
  • The hall was decked up with coloured tape and banners.
  • To his critics, he is an compassionless bureaucrat who denies cancer patients lifesaving medicines using red tape and fine print.
  • The cost of complying with red tape is rising for small businesses, despite government insistence that it has overhauled thousands of regulations, a business group has said. Times, Sunday Times
  • The walls were hung with dark but richly coloured tapestries depicting scenes of legend.
  • After many months of red tape, the Library of Congress archivists were kind enough to release the print so a new digi-beta tape could be struck.
  • When we speak to our members their number one concern is red tape, and this new legislation will of course add to this pressure on their resources.
  • It is beyond doubt that there is a problem with red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • Any attack on red tape is an instant vote-winner. Times, Sunday Times
  • Red tape is entwined into our history. Times, Sunday Times
  • Businesses say the advantages of trading with Europe have to be weighed against the increased cost of red tape.
  • The system is riddled with bureaucracy and red tape. The Sun
  • In contrast, it plans to cut the amount of red tape covering those products available only to institutional and expert investors.
  • The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
  • Red tape means it now takes a year to get rid of them. The Sun
  • In my usual burst of optimism, and at the risk of being termed pollyannaish (optimistic), I will bet against the nay-sayers, says From getting a birth certificate to opening a business venture, India's record in clearing red tape continues to be poor, hurting the country's progress. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
  • The new rules should help cut the red tape for farmers.
  • It is beyond doubt that there is a problem with red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • Such paranoid red tape applies to academics in no other country. Times, Sunday Times
  • John Young, the colourful chairman of the famous Wandsworth brewery Young's & Co, has been railing against Government red tape that he says hobbles businesses like his.
  • But neither would it have happened without the will to fast-track procedures and dismiss red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • But becoming a bank means a licence, a wave of red tape and huge amounts of cash in reserve. The Sun
  • Secondly, we need to be encouraging more small businesses to hire employees by cutting red tape. The Sun
  • We embrace our rules and red tape to prevent bad things from happening, of course.
  • Excess red tape is putting academy schools in doubt, their leaders say. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since he was hired at the beginning of January, he claims to have gathered tape recordings and photographic evidence, which prove 15 illegal minicabs are operating in Swindon.
  • Because of all red tape at immigration I missed my connecting flight.
  • The theatre's dark today, which is just as well because the police have just cordoned off the top of Roseberry Avenue with red tape.
  • The red trimming was very fetching, but we thought it quite appropriate, for there is always a lot of _red tape_ necessary in getting out of a country that is _At War_. Into the Jaws of Death
  • There is too much bureaucracy and red tape at the moment. The Sun
  • 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
  • Several participants from different countries were critical of what they called bureaucratic red tape at both central and regional government levels. Chapter 9
  • 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 red tape jungle was built into the Act to protect the Crown -- the people of Canada if you like, from the dangers inherent in trusteeship and to protect the Indians from being hoodwinked out of their land. Canada's Indian Policy—A Major Review
  • The army of typists, filing clerks, cashiers and drivers were inefficient, reluctant to take initiative, and imbued with an ethos of red tape and routinism.
  • Conservatives want less red tape and micromanagement from Whitehall pen pushers, so we can put more police officers back on patrol in the Vale of York.
  • The urban renewal administrative process drew considerable criticism because it was so long and encumbered with red tape.
  • The proposed reform was part of a Governmentwide drive to sweep away red tape in what was described as a "bonfire of regulations" aimed at stimulating business and economic growth. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
  • When new laws to combat ageism came into force two years ago, employers predicted a wave of litigation and a bundle of new red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • How can laws designed to protect the ecosphere, on which life depends, be regarded by Cameron and Cable as "red tape"? Letters: Red tape and the green agenda
  • Wright said lobbying to keep red tape and regulatory cost to a minimum for local companies will be a priority.
  • He just placed seven cameras with infrared tape and microphones in different areas of his studio and let them roll.
  • Coloured tape is wound round the fingers of his left hand.
  • Because of all red tape at immigration I missed my connecting flight.
  • Residents of a South Lakeland hamlet are in political purgatory after members of the parish council resigned over red tape.
  • 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
  • That red tape is a result of an endless stream of initiatives from the government, which are usually tied up with the private sector.
  • Compulsory, unaffordable insurance and a surfeit of red tape would encourage providers to move to more profitable alternatives.
  • Analysts said that the bank could not perform well compared to other banks because of all the unattractive red tape.
  • He uses everyday materials, including coloured tape and glitter to transform spaces and familiar objects.
  • Because the top concern of bureaucrats is to fend off future problems, the red tape piles up.
  • In this political season, let us hope that some leaders are willing to unshackle entrepreneurs from the red tape of governmental regulation, not just for the sake of the economy, but for the sake of nature, too. In Praise of 'Enviropreneurs'
  • Barbara sat on a writing stool by the bed-side, supporting the Bible on her knees, while the beams of a golden lamp, placed on a lofty tripod near the foot of the bed, fell directly on the book: the light, however, was not sufficiently powerful to illume the farthermore parts of the chamber, whose walls were hung with figured tapestry, the gloom of which contrasted strongly with the bright blue and silver that canopied The Buccaneer A Tale
  • The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
  • Such paranoid red tape applies to academics in no other country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Much depends on whether the government chooses to prioritise energy efficiency or cutting red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
  • Scientists in Scotland (yes, the same dopes who cloned Dolly) have genetically engineered tapeworms to "excrete" vitamins (lay people call it "shitting"). Glubbular globby pluff
  • But red tape is still keeping him sidelined. The Sun
  • But any possible deal was scuppered by red tape. The Sun
  • Cut the cost of administrating this benefit by cutting the red tape. Attendance allowance: the £200-plus a month many elderly people miss out on
  • The flagship scheme then became lost in a blizzard of red tape.
  • The loosely agglomerated arrangements of a multitude of insurers, each with their own rules, schedules of services, red tape, and reimbursement applications are certainly not a system.
  • The IBA had lost its credibility, the IBC said, because of its failure of courage to work outside the Act. "It has in fact adopted a bureaucratical approach of sticking to the letter of the law, hiding behind the Act and red tape. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • We've all faced it: red tape, small print, bureaucratic bungling or sheer unhelpfulness that can make doing even the simplest task a nightmare.
  • This was a flowered tapestry satchel about the size of the handbags many women carried as a matter of course. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • But a lack of volunteers, rising insurance costs and increasing red tape has meant the organisers have cancelled the event.
  • Certainly, no one is accusing the President of misappropriating the money or keeping it his personal bank account for any other reason than he says: to avoid red tape and make it easier to cash if or when it is needed.
  • The new park will be a further draw for the dense, coagulated soup of tourists the area attracts (especially if the nearby ‘South Bank Beach’ ever emerges from the Thames and the red tape).
  • The Edition 3 instructions are values based rather than process driven and written with minimum reliance on rules and red tape in simplified language and with direct hot links to information.
  • The fields are 3ft high with wildflowers in a multicoloured tapestry.
  • The slump is attributed to a number of factors: sluggish economy, drop in crime, lack of an anti-gun crisis, overbuying in recent years, and customer dislike of red tape.
  • There had been red tape to contend with all along - but at last the children were back.
  • You have to go through endless red tape to get a residence permit.
  • Red tape means it now takes a year to get rid of them. The Sun
  • The trails are marked with numbers and posts with colored tape.
  • You have to go through endless red tape to get a residence permit.
  • Companies generally need to pay expats more than locals and there's a lot more red tape to go through to get them in.
  • We got bogged down in a morass of detail and bureaucratic red tape.
  • Red tape means it now takes a year to get rid of them. The Sun
  • bureaucratic mummification in red tape
  • No more stunting growth with confiscatory taxes and miles of red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
  • Those hoping that this document will reduce red tape will be greatly disappointed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Given Musk's complaints about red tape, I think the second piece explains where the red tape is coming form: "As the liaison agency for companies that wish to launch from the Cape, Space Florida serves the 45th Space Wing in assuring companies are vetted prior to engaging with the 45th Space Wing and that processes are implemented and executed. Space Florida Is Under Increased Scrutiny (Updated) - NASA Watch
  • Red tape encumbered all our attempts at action.
  • A pledge card is on it's way too where Boris pledges too* Beef up police presence on our streets by cutting red tape and employing more officers Boris launches his Party Political Broadcast
  • Department of Motor Vehicles now strangled with bureaucratic red tape.
  • The deal is being held up by international red tape. The Sun
  • We got bogged down in a morass of detail and bureaucratic red tape.
  • The urban renewal administrative process drew considerable criticism because it was so long and encumbered with red tape.
  • "I know, but I have been taking care all evening, and frankly, I want to scream," she replied as she flung herself dramatically into a red tapestried chair.
  • Because of all red tape at immigration I missed my connecting flight.
  • Red tape now entangles the interrogation process, and detainees know that their adversaries' hands are tied.
  • _tapis_ in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally. Ulysses
  • It has as its virtue the quality of being opposed to red tape, professionalism, departmentalism pedantry, officiousness, intolerance, lethargy, and the tyranny of custom; it has its dangers in that, resting as it does in the last resort on the personal and the concrete, it tends in ill-balanced minds to neglect the value of ancient and dear illusions, and to degenerate into chaos and caprice. Personality in Literature
  • Red tape chases companies overseas, out of Europe.
  • It takes weeks to get through the red tape.
  • Lieutenant Jackson, a wildlife officer, had found the stranded shrimpers the day before and tried to call come for help, only to be put through endless phone calls and red tape.
  • He then adds colored tape and marker strokes to the paper, which is subsequently affixed to canvas.
  • Taking hevea seeds out of the country was not illegal, but Wickham did not want to risk losing valuable time being held up by red tape. He Hit the Road, Found Rubber
  • You have to go through endless red tape to get a residence permit.
  • It is necessary to more diligently improve mass political work in labor collectives and the population react quickly to their needs and requests, and root out bureaucratism and red tape. Making the History of 1989
  • An anemic supply chain, poor infrastructure, and government red tape have kept manufacturers away for years.
  • The department intended setting up three categories of housing projects in a bid to cut red tape and "unblock" 29 housing projects which have stalled for different reasons. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • It challenges everyone to be accurate and not be sensational but at the same time to cut through the red tape to get to the real meat of the story.
  • Red tape is entwined into our history. Times, Sunday Times
  • When new laws to combat ageism came into force two years ago, employers predicted a wave of litigation and a bundle of new red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although the origin of the word is unknown, an inkle is a coloured tape or braid similar to the braids produced in tablet weaving.
  • U.S. companies fear the red tape will scare off customers.
  • The fields are 3ft high with wildflowers in a multicoloured tapestry.
  • ‘All those years later we were still being harried by red tape and Turkish customs and coastguards,’ Dobson recalls.
  • The government is committed to a 25% reduction in the administrative burden of red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • As we drift downstream, the cliffs soar upward in a layered tapestry of pastels: pinkish limestone, buff-colored sandstone, and deep-red shale.
  • We must cut through the red tape.
  • I'd really like to see a UK version of the Red Tape chart, illustrating the size and scope of the US federal government.
  • Some in the Bush administration appear to believe that paying prevailing wages, maintaining nondiscrimination standards and documenting workers 'identities are examples of what they term bureaucratic inefficiency or red tape. CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2005
  • But after an 18-month struggle with red tape, a Hull nursery is to become the first in the UK to offer overnight accommodation for toddlers.
  • There is little in the way of red tape when you decide to build a velodrome. Times, Sunday Times
  • Is this country so bound up in red tape that compassion has been strangled?
  • Without it, red tape will strangle plans for the Queen to unveil the memorial on the eve of the 60th anniversary of VE Day.
  • The army of typists, filing clerks, cashiers, accountants, storekeepers, and drivers had a low level of education, were inefficient, reluctant to take initiative, and imbued with an ethos of red tape and routinism.
  • `Ken intends to cut clean across all your piddling bureaucratic red tape and petty carping. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • This approach called a "cram down" cuts through legal red tape and give consumers more bargaining power with banks and other mortgage lenders. Peter Dreier: Want to Help Homeowners? Replace the Mansion Subsidy and Require Banks to Act Responsibly
  • And gunning for the government: the pistol firm ruined by red tape.
  • Because of all red tape at immigration I missed my connecting flight.
  • The unemployment spike is going to come on strong within a year, and there simply isn't time to flaff around with all the planning red tape and consultation processes, that if allowed to run their course will delay any new development plans for years. House Price Crash News Blog
  • The army of typists, filing clerks, cashiers, accountants, storekeepers, and drivers had a low level of education, were inefficient, reluctant to take initiative, and imbued with an ethos of red tape and routinism.
  • All too often, business nowadays sees government as a sea of anti-progress ‘Sir Humphreys’ who generate red tape, obfuscate at every turn and aggrandise unaccountable power to themselves behind closed doors.
  • She became an expert in parliamentary law - cutting through red tape and also tangling red tape up to suit her purposes.
  • Red tape encumbered all our attempts at action.
  • You have to go through endless red tape to get a residence permit.
  • For one thing, vulture investors may be unwilling to go through the red tape involved in obtaining a license to run a casino in New Jersey.
  • ‡ Today, the term bureaucracy suggests a lack of initiative, excessive adherence to rules and routine, red tape, inefficiency, or, even more serious, an impersonal force dominating the lives of individuals. Bureaucracy
  • But red tape is still keeping him sidelined. The Sun
  • The hall was decked up with coloured tape and banners.
  • It is beyond doubt that there is a problem with red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • The australian joint venture have is hold up by government red tape.
  • Six days later Dutcher wrote again from his New York City office mentioning the red tape being encountered and the considerable amount of information, affidavits, and the cadastral survey he and Robert Williams had already supplied to the GLO. History of Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge
  • Red tape is entwined into our history. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sessionals also face bureaucratic red tape with each reappointment, said Needham, adding that even a continuing sessional must reapply for a library card, a parking space, and an e-mail address.
  • The rising tide of red tape is the major reason that small firms are underperforming in the economy.
  • Because of all red tape at immigration I missed my connecting flight.
  • On Clegg's red tape hit list is the requirement of shops to hold a poisons license if they sell kitchen descaler and forms that need to be filled in by pubs wanting to hold small live music events. Nick Clegg to propose relaxing regulations for small businesses
  • There's nothing elusive about the emotions engendered by its fissured tapestries of sounds (airy, spiky, hiccupping, ghostly). Times, Sunday Times
  • The paperless system also has cut red tape.
  • TAPIS in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally. Ulysses
  • He says he is saddened that bureaucratic red tape has brought the event to an end.
  • If we look back on the Raj experience we find that we have inherited so many things like the English language and beer, Parliament and tiffin, education system and mulligatawny soup, judiciary and red tape.
  • I believe red tape, bureaucracy, regulations, inspectorates, commissions, quangos, ‘czars’, ‘units’ and ‘targets’ came to help and protect us, but now we need protection from them.
  • As men of inherited wealth, the prime minister and chancellor cannot imagine the scrappy rage of the self-made entrepreneur drowning in red tape, suggests a Tory MP.
  • It is beyond doubt that there is a problem with red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • Much depends on whether the government chooses to prioritise energy efficiency or cutting red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • The army of typists, filing clerks, cashiers, accountants, storekeepers, and drivers had a low level of education, were inefficient, reluctant to take initiative, and imbued with an ethos of red tape and routinism.
  • But red tape is still keeping him sidelined. The Sun
  • It is beyond doubt that there is a problem with red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • Much depends on whether the government chooses to prioritise energy efficiency or cutting red tape. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bureaucratic red tape and formalities that one has to go through is the source of frustration to everyone who lives here.
  • If the developer decided not to utilize the historic brownstone adjacent to the Club building, he could conceivably avoid a lot of red tape and build a 15-story tower, he points out.
  • Allbaugh said he was helping private companies, including his clients, cut through federal red tape to speed provision of services and supplies to the storm-wracked region.
  • It is alarming that surgeries are bogged down by farcical officialism and red tape, instead of leaving medical staff to use their own discretion.
  • They understand that basic human needs are immediate - red tape doesn't feed a hungry person.
  • Of course not and just think of the massive amount of money we would gain and how much red tape we would lose.

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