red tape

Example Sentences

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It has balanced the budget, improved government aid to the poor by removing political middlemen, and cut a tangle of red tape that was strangling business.

From The Wall Street Journal

The prime minister will also promise to cut "unnecessary red tape" in infrastructure after a report found the UK had become the most expensive place in the world to build nuclear power infrastructure.

From BBC

He knew he should probably seek a permit but didn’t want to get bogged down in red tape.

From The Wall Street Journal

It also said the efforts "should be complemented by pro-growth structural reforms, including measures to foster more innovation and digitalisation, cut red tape, reduce labour supply constraints... and deepen European economic integration".

From Barron's

The German government just approved a list of measures to cut red tape that should hasten deployment.

From Barron's