red tape

A yellow hazardous material bin placed out on the lawn, just beyond some red tape reading “Danger Do Not Enter,” left no doubt.

Sadly, its most notable achievement is to add layers of red tape and busywork to our already bureaucracy-heavy prison system.

Oversight on top of oversight and red tape on top of red tape, Christie said, was the real enemy.

But Rogers said the new policy is instead a new level of red tape that has paralyzed the U.S. military and intelligence community.

The abortion battleground is becoming a fight over reams of red tape.

He gets out and does things while these fatheads stay in quarters and untangle red tape.

Black Hood knew what it was to be a policeman with hands bound by red tape or political intrigue.

Even for doctors to obtain it is an undertaking involving considerable red tape.

They are such illogical fools; a logical fool in an office, with a lot of red tape, is conceivable.

If it's an ordinary government deal, you know how many light-years of red tape are involved.