Word Finder - bureaucratic

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Of or pertaining to bureaucracy or the actions of bureaucrats.

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the European Union is legalistic, bureaucratic and runs by precedent.

The large amount of self-administration has prevented an undue increase of bureaucratic power.

So will you, trying to mush through the state's bureaucratic swamp.

He worked little but rapidly, with none of the bureaucratic pedantry of a Philip II.

The last item on Dean's list of pleasurable activities was punching one if you want this and two if you want that buttons, then sitting on hold while listening to elevator music from some bureaucratic office.

Strickland desired to replace bureaucratic government by a system more in touch with the independent gentlemen of the country, and to introduce English ideas and precedents.

It was resisted by the Austrian members, who were supported by the ultramontanes and the democrats, both of whom disliked Prussia, the former because of her Protestantism, the latter because of her bureaucratic system.

The confrontation within the revolutionary process with these conservative bureaucratic governmental sectors is essentially verbal.

Exploiting the latter, it creates the regime of bureaucratic absolutism.

First of all there are always all sorts of bureaucratic hoops to jump through the first day.

A constitution on the French imperial pattern granted by the king remained practically inoperative, an arbitrary bureaucratic regime was instituted, the finances were from the beginning in a hopeless condition, and the country was drained of men and money for Napoleon's wars.

In Prussia at least the medieval system of local self-government had succumbed completely to the centralizing policy of the monarchy, and when it was revived it was at the will and for the purposes of the central authorities, as subsidiary to the bureaucratic system.

There was no bureaucratic fussiness, no seeking after popularity; but every man, whether great or small, was treated exactly as became his station in the world.

His death was a signal for some of the suppressed anger at the bureaucratic regimes of Eastern Europe to surface.

I feel sure that somewhere in our country's bureaucratic behemoth there is someone suitably skilled with a pair of scissors.

However, this organization must not become a bureaucratic black hole that is only about political correctness and unnecessary interference.

We will be seeking ways of stripping away bureaucratic burdens on staff.

He expressed the interests of this bureaucratic caste ever more clearly.

Like the SWP, Workers Power is disabled by bureaucratic centralism - the flip side of which is, of course, anarchism.

The rivalry between the bureaucratic cliques can become the opening for a much wider political struggle.

The first task he gave me was to write a rebuttal of the theory of bureaucratic collectivism.

We are all painfully familiar with bureaucratic moods, which are often conflated with " policy.

The productive forces of Russia were artificially constrained by the bureaucratic system.

Admittedly Lenin did not develop a theory of bureaucratic deformation.

The decisive section of the bureaucratic elite are transforming themselves into private capitalists.

For a nation cannot simply be created by bureaucratic fiat.

As Robin says, how many of those INS detainees were held as a result of this, or some less deliberate bureaucratic foul-up?

Bill gave COAST lots of advice on how to tackle government & bureaucratic inertia, which we will now use.

I sometimes wonder whether these bureaucratic quango types have even the faintest inkling what a " market " actually is.

Are the proposed Home Information Packs going to be a bureaucratic nightmare?

This is part of an effort to spend as little as possible on bureaucratic overhead.

By the mid - 1920s Stalin's bureaucratic reaction had triumphed in the Bolshevik party and the Comintern underwent a sea change.

Joining fascism and bureaucratic socialism together into a single phenomenon admirably suited the needs of the cold war.

These reasons include distance from the consumer, bureaucratic management systems and a lack of entrepreneurial sprit.

The 1945 government was the apotheosis of bureaucratic socialism, founded on the principles of collectivism, central economic planning, and redistributive taxation.

The Soviet republic, like the world proletarian vanguard, will finally liberate itself from the bureaucratic octopus.

The bureaucratic totalitarian system with its sclerotic economy was not attractive to the masses in Western Europe, America and Japan.

The aim of Sieyes was to perpetuate the republic, but in a bureaucratic or autocratic form.

For this unfortunate issue Louis was not without blame; for from the very first, owing to an exaggerated idealism and love of antiquity, he had totally misunderstood the national character of the Greeks and the problems involved in the attempts to govern them by bureaucratic methods.

As under the Empire, the Palatium was both royal court and centre of government, with the same bureaucratic hierarchy and the same forms of administration; and the mayor of the palace was premier official of this itinerant court and ambulatory government.

Despite the queens express prohibition, the insurrectionary assembly of the Chambre Saint Louis criticized the whole financial system, founded as it was upon usury, claimed the right of voting taxes, respect for individual liberty, and the suppression of the intendants, who were a menace to the new bureaucratic feudalism.

They had been drawn into the work of supervising the state bureaucratic apparatus.

Professor Braben spoke about ' Promoting innovation in a Bureaucratic World ', highlighting the importance of academic freedom to the economy.

The people quite rightly mistrust the giant bureaucratic monolith which is Brussels.

Even Bonaventure's boss, the shoot-first-think-later bureaucratic numbskull Pete Aristos, has a delightful sense of realness to him.

Their terrorist paymasters are shown to be cold, bureaucratic, exploitative - and more than a little pompous.

The retention of the escrow account signals continued delays and bureaucratic red tape that will hamper the functioning of the economy.

One thing is for sure if you remain voiceless -- nothing will change for the better and bureaucratic monsters will carry on regardless!

In spite, however, of his desire for peace he let his country drift into the disastrous war with Japan; and notwithstanding his sincere attachment to the principles of bureaucratic autocracy, it was he who granted the constitutional reforms which altered the whole political outlook in Russia (see Russia).

In the increasingly bureaucratic quagmire in which we live, an up to date will should be everyone 's number one priority.

By the mid - 1920s Stalin 's bureaucratic reaction had triumphed in the Bolshevik party and the Comintern underwent a sea change.