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Some say the real power is with the bureaucracy -- not the elected officials.bureaucracy = nonelective government officials & regulations
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Her request had been caught up in bureaucratic red tape for over a year.bureaucratic = related to an excessively complicated or unresponsive administrative system
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The successful small business owner sold her company and moved into government service. She was unprepared for the level of patience and teamwork required of a professional bureaucrat.bureaucrat = someone who works as a nonelective government official
 
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. (source)bureaucracies = complicated administrative systems
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A crippling bureaucracy is a natural symptom of excessive government.bureaucracy = an excessively complicated or unresponsive administrative system
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Christopher, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system. (source)bureaucrat = worker in a large, complex organization
 
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The whole episode had been a matter of botched bureaucracy.† (source)
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The bureaucrat hands him another letter. (source)bureaucrat = a nonelective government official
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Valhalla, it is now What bureaucratic moron decided this was a suitable name for an old-age home?† (source)bureaucratic = related to nonelective government officials or a complicated administrative system
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The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. (source)bureaucrats = nonelected government officials -- especially clerks
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It was difficult to find the right communication channels, and numerous bureaucracies required layers of formal paperwork.† (source)bureaucracies = complicated administrative systems
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Not as well and too bureaucratically.† (source)
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Damned bureaucracy is all it is.† (source)
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Or take that bureaucrat on the dais with his gavel.† (source)bureaucrat = a nonelective government official
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The notice had been generated as a bureaucratic matter of course, a designation made for all missing servicemen after thirteen months had passed.† (source)bureaucratic = related to nonelective government officials or a complicated administrative system
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But a committee of faceless bureaucrats back on Earth?† (source)bureaucrats = nonelective government officials
 
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