bureaucratic machinery

The whole country was easily controlled by the bureaucratic machinery installed.

He was equally comfortable with politicians and the civil servants who run the bureaucratic machinery of government.

They began as cogs in the wheels of the New Deal's bureaucratic machinery.

"Money's flying all over; syndicates are trying to find internal investments where bureaucratic machineries look the other way."

It continues to pay for the massive bureaucratic machinery that will ultimately takeover the healthcare system once the bill is fully enacted in 2014.

Everything we do must focus on the public, and let me once again stress that they must not be used as a justification for bureaucratic machinery.

The bureaucratic machinery under him grinds slowly.

There is a real need to reform the bureaucratic machinery of the European institutions, and an end must be made to these sorts of cliques.

His subordinates may be recalcitrant or incompetent or simply lack the bureaucratic machinery to act effectively.

It portrays the pressure exerted on popular governments by big business and the confrontation between the bureaucratic machinery and the political forces.

Yet, although autocratic, the very existence of the complex bureaucratic machinery consistituted a check on his arbitrary exercise of power.

Although the council is funded by a direct annual government grant, it operates independently of the Fiji government bureaucratic machinery.

Power and responsibility have to be devolved both within the bureaucratic machinery and from the Commission to the Member States.

The impact of the Douglas government on the rest of the country was profound, both in public policy and the bureaucratic machinery devised to implement it.

Instead of being able to reduce the size of its bureaucratic machinery (and therefore opportunities for corruption), it is instead pressed to expand further.

The party is moderately eurosceptic, opposing the 'bureaucratic machinery' that it says that the EU represents.

This task is doubly complicated because the bureaucratic machinery has yet to catch up with spending cuts imposed in the present fiscal year, let alone future ones.

Government reprisals, stifling bureaucratic machinery, sanctioned strikes and dysfunctional familial structures were all represented in her earlier work as a filmmaker.

He said since World War II, Soviet attempts at major science projects have been increasingly dragged down by bureaucratic machinery that smothers original research.

We must reform this regulation, which is jamming Europe’s bureaucratic machinery, because it is the benchmark or expression of Europe’s pathologically proliferating bureaucracy.

He tells Saddam where to get off - into a garden abloom with U.N. concessions, new bureaucratic machinery, moral equivalency with Iraq's opponents.

He died in 1962, his great opera unwritten, his faith in the socialist ideal tempered by his firsthand confrontation with the bureaucratic machinery of the state.

They argued that foreign policy was being made by a passive President influenced by a National Security Council rendered virtually useless by ponderous, bureaucratic machinery.

Massive lay-offs have been announced, not only in the huge, bureaucratic machinery, which is the real drain on state resources, but among the few physicians, therapists and treatment aides left.

Elsewhere in the room, Mr. Spock was talking with a middle-aged senior officer from some department or other in the bowels of the Starfleet bureaucratic machinery.