bureaucratic

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Deported not to their homelands but to unfamiliar cities deep inside Mexico, thousands of migrants are stranded in a dangerous, bureaucratic limbo with little support and no clear path forward.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

In an earlier post, he blamed "bureaucratic problems" for holding up his plans to modernise the armed forces' equipment and their aircraft.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

The FDA has long had an entrenched culture of bureaucratic control, but biotech firms say it has become worse this past year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Italy's renewable energy sector continues to grow despite bureaucratic hurdles: 49 percent of its electricity in 2025 came from renewables in 2025, up from 39 percent in 2015.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

Though the change was long awaited, the advent of bureaucratic administration seemed to guarantee that the visionary tendency of an Osborne and the humane one of a Lawes were things of the past.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover