How to Use bureaucracy in a Sentence

bureaucracy

noun

• She was fed up with all the red tape and bureaucracy.
• Both candidates pledge to simplify the state's bloated bureaucracy.
• Proving that even lumbering federal bureaucracies can move quickly when they have to, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) last week took advantage of Congress' extended holiday break to introduce its long-awaited—and, perhaps, long-dreaded—ergonomic standards.
  — Editor & Publisher, 27 Nov. 1999
• Once the bureaucracy was out of the way, there were still the logistics on the ground.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• But in the last year, I've been pleased with the bureaucracy finding a way.
  — CBS News, 26 Feb. 2020
• My case, this time, is lost in the labyrinth of bureaucracy in Ankara.
  — Nick Hilden, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
• Just more cash sucked in by the black hole of bureaucracy.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• To shout through the bureaucracy and the closed-door meetings.
  — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
• The result is that their work gets mired in the bureaucracy.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• Can't find a place to lock your bike? Rack it up to bureaucracy.
  — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 14 May 2018
• That request will take weeks, if not months, to work its way through the bureaucracy.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• That money could take longer to wind its way through the bureaucracy.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2021
• The good news for the drug-war bureaucracy is that its jobs program is secure.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2020
• For decades, the company had been known for its pass-the-buck bureaucracy.
  — Rick Tetzeli, Fortune, 23 May 2018
• Others don’t want to deal with the bureaucracy, forms, and delays in the appeals process.
  — Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 24 Apr. 2023
• Muslims and Buddhists served side by side in the royal court and the bureaucracy.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• The bureaucracy required to claim the title is part of what makes the record so difficult to obtain.
  — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• So, choose a scent that pairs perfectly with the lack of screentime, bureaucracy, and stress.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2022
• Trump’s allies felt there were too many layers of bureaucracy and the large staff posed a heightened risk of leaks.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 28 Feb. 2020
• Musk was likely next on the list, the InfoWars host warned, since the tycoon had the government bureaucracy scared.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• George: There would be no need to create some huge new bureaucracy.
  — Zachary Evans, National Review, 17 Jan. 2020
• Also a factor is the nature of a bureaucracy that has worked on paper for hundreds of years and is slow to change.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• Even in our mixed economy, people get caught up in the net of bureaucracy.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2020
• What to do about it, of course, is still an open question; bureaucracy moves slowly, and the water is dropping fast.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2022
• Mounting bureaucracy is one of the best ways to ensure people stay put.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• The Pentagon is a massive bureaucracy and doesn't turn on a dime.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
• Poole said reducing the bureaucracy would be a step in the right direction.
  — Mike Cason, AL.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• His job is to dream the future, and then to marshal the city’s gargantuan bureaucracy to get those dreams built.
  — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Spinks was apparently aware of the propensity for some of his staff to make end runs around the bureaucracy.
  — Travis Loller, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• Whether the bureaucracy shrinks or grows depends on what Congress and the president do.
  — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024