bureaucracy

Example Sentences

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When President Nixon closed the U.S. gold window in 1971, the IMF reinvented itself, as bureaucracies usually do.

From The Wall Street Journal

The BBC's response to the errors seems to have been more checks and more bureaucracy - and potentially more managers.

From BBC

“It needs less regulation, less bureaucracy, and more space for each member state to shape policies suited to its own economic realities.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"It restores discipline, reduces unnecessary bureaucracy and ensures staff have the support they need to do what they do best - teach."

From BBC

The civil-defense bureaucracy needs to be streamlined, disaster response tested, and the medical system is overstretched, even in peacetime.

From The Wall Street Journal