powers that be

Strongest matches

• administration
• authority
• civil service
• management
• ministry
• red tape

Strong matches

• directorate
• government
• officialdom
• officials

Weak matches

• beadledom
• city hall
• regulatory commission
• the Establishment
• the system

Strongest matches

• authority
• bureaucracy

Strong match

• diehards

Weak matches

• city hall
• established order
• old guard
• the system

Strongest matches

• administration
• control
• law
• politics

Strong matches

• authority
• bureaucracy
• command
• direction
• domination
• dominion
• empire
• execution
• executive
• guidance
• influence
• jurisdiction
• ministry
• patronage
• polity
• power

Weak matches

• political practice
• predominanc

Strongest matches

• authority
• law
• ministry
• politics
• power
• regime
• rule
• state
• union

Strong matches

• Washington
• bureaucracy
• command
• control
• direction
• domination
• dominion
• empire
• execution
• executive
• governance
• guidance
• influence
• jurisdiction
• patronage
• polity
• predominance
• presidency
• regency
• regimentation
• regulation
• restraint
• sovereignty
• statecraft
• superintendence
• superiority
• supervision
• supremacy
• sway

Weak matches

• Uncle Sam
• political practice
• the feds

Strongest matches

• hierarchy
• ruling class

Weak matches

• class structure
• corridors of power
• establishment
• interests
• managerial hierarchy
• power elite
• status system
• stratification

Strongest match

• bureaucracy

Weak matches

• authority
• bureaucratic paperwork
• city hall
• government
• management
• official forms
• official procedures
• officialdom
• officialism
• paper shuffling
• proper channels
• regulatory commission
• the Establishment
• the system