(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."
Diplomacy
Definition:
(n.) The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.
(n.) Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.
(n.) The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Had he learned diplomacy, his career might have suffered less.
(2) The index, now in its third year, was compiled by the PR firm Portland Communications in conjunction with the University of Southern California school of public diplomacy.
(3) And the larger point is this: it is diplomacy.. that can best solve disputes like this in the 21st century.
(4) The pope, whose foray into diplomacy helped spur negotiations between the US and Cuba , is expected to address the topic in a speech before the UN in New York in September.
(5) High stakes is a terrible cliche, but this is about as high stakes as diplomacy gets.
(6) There was diplomacy, all right, but it was diplomacy aimed at licensing war.
(7) "My definition of diplomacy is to create space for dialogue," he said.
(8) In this manner the society succeeded in attracting many thousands of workers to its meetings and worked without openly alienating employers, trade unions, the government, or the medical profession--a remarkable feat of diplomacy.
(9) 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy' Read more The crowded courtroom was growing increasing stifling as the air-conditioner could not cope with mid-August heat.
(10) His message was echoed by Albert Royo, of Diplocat, the Catalan body responsible for public diplomacy.
(11) It was a turning point in history, and was a written text promoting peace and diplomacy.
(12) The history of the Gujarat riots and the RSS connection is not going to simplify diplomacy anywhere in the Islamic world.
(13) Israel has repeatedly threatened to take military action if diplomacy fails to contain Iran’s nuclear aspirations.
(14) Both sides, wearied by decades of fruitless diplomacy, cautioned that an initial meeting – scheduled for the "next week or so" in Washington, according to Kerry – will not automatically lead to productive negotiations.
(15) For Merkel, the meeting is the start of a week of whirlwind diplomacy that will see her meeting heads of state in Tallin, Prague and Warsaw before hosting first the leaders of the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and then the presidents of Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia at Schloss Meseberg, a baroque castle outside Berlin.
(16) Rightly, Miliband gives diplomacy more time, while those in his party, like Ben Bradshaw on these pages on Thursday, who support military intervention cite their leader to make the case.
(17) In the first comments to come out of Damascus since the accord to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons, brokered by Russia and the US, was announced, Ali Haidar, paid fulsome tribute to its longstanding ally, praising "the achievement of the Russian diplomacy and the Russian leadership".
(18) Some will argue that Turnbull needed to avoid megaphone diplomacy – that is, direct public criticism of Trump’s refugee bans – to preserve the US deal to take refugees off Nauru and Manus Island.
(19) They have learned from this and dedicate a lot of effort toward diplomacy and government cooperation.
(20) The entire Middle East will benefit if this is the new normal.” Hossein Rassam, a London-based Iranian analyst, said the lifting of sanctions would bring two years of intensive diplomacy to fruition.