bureaucracy

It began as an unstable blend of wildly ambitious idealism, great-power cynicism and mind-numbing bureaucracy, and that combination has defined it ever since.

Building permits are grinding slowly through the bureaucracy, hammers are swinging and a new Altadena will one day rise from the ashes.

Many analysts question the effectiveness of the UN in resolving conflict these days, pointing in particular to gridlock in the Security Council and the body's unresponsive bureaucracy.

Francis Coppola himself brings up “Apocalypse Now” at one point, complaining that there is too much machinery and bureaucracy around “Megalopolis” and the team cannot respond to his creative desires fast enough.

The same people making all this chatter are creating the bureaucracy making it difficult to access government assistance.