How to Use bureaucracy in a Sentence

bureaucracy

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  • She was fed up with all the red tape and bureaucracy.
  • Both candidates pledge to simplify the state's bloated bureaucracy.
  • Proving that even lumbering federal bureaucracies can move quickly when they have to, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) last week took advantage of Congress' extended holiday break to introduce its long-awaited—and, perhaps, long-dreaded—ergonomic standards.
    — Editor & Publisher, 27 Nov. 1999
  • Just more cash sucked in by the black hole of bureaucracy.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 June 2018
  • Once the bureaucracy was out of the way, there were still the logistics on the ground.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The result is that their work gets mired in the bureaucracy.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • To shout through the bureaucracy and the closed-door meetings.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
  • That money could take longer to wind its way through the bureaucracy.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But in the last year, I've been pleased with the bureaucracy finding a way.
    — CBS News, 26 Feb. 2020
  • My case, this time, is lost in the labyrinth of bureaucracy in Ankara.
    — Nick Hilden, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The good news for the drug-war bureaucracy is that its jobs program is secure.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Can't find a place to lock your bike? Rack it up to bureaucracy.
    — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 14 May 2018
  • That request will take weeks, if not months, to work its way through the bureaucracy.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The bureaucracy required to claim the title is part of what makes the record so difficult to obtain.
    — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • For decades, the company had been known for its pass-the-buck bureaucracy.
    — Rick Tetzeli, Fortune, 23 May 2018
  • Muslims and Buddhists served side by side in the royal court and the bureaucracy.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Mounting bureaucracy is one of the best ways to ensure people stay put.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Others don’t want to deal with the bureaucracy, forms, and delays in the appeals process.
    — Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Poole said reducing the bureaucracy would be a step in the right direction.
    — Mike Cason, AL.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Also a factor is the nature of a bureaucracy that has worked on paper for hundreds of years and is slow to change.
    — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Even in our mixed economy, people get caught up in the net of bureaucracy.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Trump’s allies felt there were too many layers of bureaucracy and the large staff posed a heightened risk of leaks.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Spinks was apparently aware of the propensity for some of his staff to make end runs around the bureaucracy.
    — Travis Loller, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • But there is still a severe shortage of case managers to handle the bureaucracy.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • There is nothing like a crisis to expand the scope and scale of a government bureaucracy.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 4 May 2023
  • But a well-functioning bureaucracy is a thing of grace and wonder.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 23 June 2019
  • Now a new proposal is making its way through the city bureaucracy.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • But the federal bureaucracy at times has strained to deliver some of that support in a tight time frame.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • So, choose a scent that pairs perfectly with the lack of screentime, bureaucracy, and stress.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2022
  • George: There would be no need to create some huge new bureaucracy.
    — Zachary Evans, National Review, 17 Jan. 2020

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