ossified

Example Sentences

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When Congress created the right to “an individualized and appropriate education” for disabled students, the system for educating blind ones had already ossified around the needs of administrators.

From Los Angeles Times

In response to what he calls “ossified and bureaucratic” traditional funding mechanisms, Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, created Fast Grants through the school’s Mercatus Center, a free market-oriented nonprofit organization.

From Washington Post

Depending on whom you ask, the Postal Service is either an iconic provider of an essential public service or an ossified, money-losing agency badly in need of free-market discipline.

From Salon

America’s capitalism at its base flows from nothing but good luck compounded by avarice, then ossified by inheritance.

From New York Times

“The way I see it is our entire bureaucracy that’s supposed to deal with public health responses to pandemics is ossified and sclerotic and really slow,” he said.

From Washington Times