(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."
Functionary
Definition:
(n.) One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has brought waves of Australian diplomats and functionaries implementing strategies to douse local disgruntlement at the profound social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts their operation has brought.
(2) Recently an AfD functionary called for the death penalty to be introduced so that the government could be “placed against a wall” and shot.
(3) 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.
(4) But Fifa's blazered functionaries are already talking about the possibility of holding the 2010 tournament in two African countries.
(5) This involvement is reflected not only in the rise of for-profit providers, but also in the influence of hospital administrators, utilization review organizations, insurance bureaucrats, and other functionaries unfamiliar with the clinical encounter, but well versed on the bottom line.
(6) How much influence will the many other senior RSS functionaries currently in top posts in the BJP have if the party takes power?
(7) The only statistically significant difference in levels of self-reported dental anxiety in relation to social background factors was between female labourers (high level) and female functionaries (low level).
(8) There was a significant and positive relationship between maternal knowledge and functionary knowledge of the growth chart (GC), and coverage of children for GM.
(9) Torture has been defined by the United Nations (declaration of December 9, 1975) as "every act by which a public functionary (or another person at his instigation) intentionally inflicts on another person serious pain or suffering, ...physical or mental, with the object of obtaining information or of punishing him...or of intimidating that person or others."
(10) This is imperative because functionaries from both governments are, sadly, pushing their negative emotion out into their nations’ media.
(11) These allegations are being pinned not to minor functionaries but senior members of the politburo.
(12) "Their functionaries share with us their reproach of the 'radical' Swedes and Czechs, with their human rights priorities, and can't wait for 'moderate' Spain to take over the EU presidency."
(13) Adrenoceptors of the bronchi and the lung show a special pattern of distribution and response, ensuring that the airway system works as a functionary unit.
(14) Another, less diplomatic dispatch sent to a functionary of the British embassy said simply: “Your new boss is a plonker.” Some, however, believe Johnson is the right man for the job.
(15) Even if a court were involved in the acquisition of these records - and that's unlikely here - it typically does little more than act as rubber-stamping functionary, just as it does when secretly approving the DOJ's requests for FISA warrants.
(16) The Fair Labor Standards Act, also known as the "Wage and Hour Law," has been expanded to include health professionals in radiologic technology programs as interpreted by functionaries of the Department of Labor.
(17) And in only a handful of scenes he brought to ripe, repugnant life a sycophantic functionary in the Coen brothers' caper The Big Lebowski (1998).
(18) A downloadable pdf application form for the executioner jobs, available on the website carrying Monday’s date, said the jobs were classified as “religious functionaries” and that they would be at the lower end of the civil service pay scale.
(19) She sounds a bit like a grim communist functionary circa 1989: only too aware that everything is changing at speed, but still awaiting orders.
(20) However, anti-microbial and anti-diarrheal drugs were used at a significantly higher rate by doctors than by other functionaries (p 0.05).