(n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.
(n.) Government officials, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(2) In his only specific growth measure, he said Britain's planning laws would have to be scrapped so more housing could be built, vowing to scrap "the suffocating bureaucracy" that he said was holding economic growth back.
(3) He talked in court about his desire to move up in the Nazi bureaucracy, for example.
(4) He vowed to to stop the runaway train of bureaucracy in its tracks, “giving our teachers more time to do what they do best”.
(5) The proposals as they stand would also see hens' eggs, which are used to produce vaccines, dealt with under vivisection regulations, a move that would drive up costs and increase bureaucracy, the scientists said.
(6) Thus China replaced a state bureaucracy with a similar state bureaucracy under a different name, the USSR replaced the dreaded imperial secret police with an even more dreaded secret police, and so forth.
(7) He said: “It’s bad for business at a time when we should be freeing our businesses from red tape and bureaucracy,” he said.
(8) The tendency of secretive national security bureaucracies to expand the sorts of people it targets and violate civil liberties hasn't changed.
(9) After 12 years in existence and costing a billion dollars, the ICC has, because of bureaucracy and delays, secured just a single conviction, that of Congolese warlord Germain Katanga.
(10) The mood in New Orleans was even more celebratory than usual, however, even though couples who tried to marry ran into a wall of bureaucracy.
(11) I opposed the coalition’s 2012 Health and Social Care Act, which introduced hugely costly reforms and saw a rise in bureaucracy, workload and stress.
(12) Here's a summary of where things stand: • A Senate hearing on the crisis of child immigration to the United States laid bare a daunting tangle of overlapping bureaucracies charged with handling each child's case.
(13) But many of those legislators might be “pwned” - that is, owned by a spy bureaucracy three times the size of the CIA.
(14) That process could take years given major backlogs in the Italian bureaucracy.
(15) Designed to minimize the uses of power in negotiating work procedures and relationships, bureaucracy requires the mobilization and uses of power to, at a minimum, reduce the risks of falling ill from frustration and anger and, at a maximum, to sense one's impact on events.
(16) Banbury described the “Orwellian admonitions and Carrollian logic” of the UN bureaucracy, where hiring new talent takes 213 days on average and is due to expand to more than one year under a new recruitment system.
(17) The authors argue that "many GPs are worried about the size of the new commissioning board and whether a culture of bureaucracy is really ending".
(18) It’s clear she lends a sympathetic ear to many reformist ideas; in London last year she said: “We must constantly renew Europe’s political shape so that it keeps up with the times.” Beyond the platitudes, Merkel is open to reforms to the internal market, to competitiveness, to the bureaucracy and even to some of the institutions.
(19) It’s very simple to understand their logic and when you understand their logic you understand the logic of any official in Russia because all this bureaucracy is quite similar to each other.
(20) What we don't need is the bureaucracy that's been set up."
Bureaucrat
Definition:
(n.) An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(2) An overly bureaucratic approach to midwifery is not just letting mothers down – it's putting the whole profession under strain.
(3) Najam Sethi, editor of the weekly Friday Times, said: "The powers that be, that is the military and bureaucratic establishment, are mulling the formation of a national government, with or without the PPP [the ruling Pakistan People's party].
(4) Health care is shifting from a professional-independent to a business-bureaucratic orientation.
(5) It had become over-bureaucratic, and lacked gravitas, and like teaching, needed to rediscover both its intellectual confidence and professional autonomy.
(6) As a result, you find you're constantly running into a bureaucratic wall.
(7) However, fFew people realise how the death of someone close leads the survivors into a bureaucratic maze at a time when they feel least able to take on new responsibilities.
(8) In fact, not only have the teams that failed to qualify not been invited to play, for if they were that would contradict the elitist terms of the qualification that are disavowed so cunningly here by Pitbull, but also in reality, only Fifa functionaries, Brazilian bureaucrats and half the BBC will get into Brazil's stadiums gratis this summer.
(9) Expensive flights, bureaucratic borders and lack of postal systems in remote locations are just some of the headaches.
(10) But bureaucratic dysfunction means less than half have been given out – as shown by two state department charts – and only at the end of agonizingly long waiting periods .
(11) The politicians understand it better, the bureaucrats understand it better.” “People understand the need to cut ‘hard and fast’ now, before it’s too late, and we are locked into something truly catastrophic.” He said while Paris was a vital, and almost final, chance for global leaders to commit to binding targets, it would not be the end of tightening of global emissions.
(12) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
(13) Clunky and bureaucratic as those systems may be, they have been and still are a key expression of the social contract that holds us all together.
(14) Crispin Blunt, the Conservative chair of the foreign affairs committee, said the delays had been because of “bureaucratic complexity”.
(15) No, I’m not a naive optimist and yes, I know only too well about the bureaucratic challenges of different nations attempting to work alongside each other.
(16) The system is bureaucratic and savings need to be made."
(17) This limited form of participation is attributed to the bureaucratic organization of national family planning programs that seek to implement policies with explicit demographic goals.
(18) But the demise of a relatively modest bureaucratic fix offers some insight into the scope, or rather the lack of scope, for anything approaching a serious and meaningful agenda for reform of our prisons.
(19) Scott Morrison ignored his department’s advice that it was illegal for him to refuse permanent visas for boat arrivals found to be refugees, and defied warnings from bureaucrats that the move would be challenged in the high court and he would lose.
(20) Even activities that might have cast China in a positive light have been abandoned or revised because they were outside the bureaucratic comfort zone.