How to Use red tape in a Sentence

red tape

noun

• You would not believe the red tape involved in getting the required permits.
• Would create a bureau that could cut red tape and train workers in clean energy jobs.
  — Mallory Moench, Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2022
• That can cut weeks of red tape or entirely suspend a law that might be preventing the state from helping a smaller community.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2022
• Even with money earmarked to stop evictions during a public health crisis, red tape and bureaucracy often got in the way of distributing the funds.
  — Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2022
• Cities that promote nightlife and culture, for example by cutting red tape or offering subsidies, can get a leg up on the competition.
  — Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• Bamiduro says excessive bureaucratic red tape and supply chain delays due to bad infrastructure are also routine headaches.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2022
• The idea, however, is still in its infancy, and actually coming to fruition would require a dizzying route through public approval and bureaucratic red tape.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2022
• For products with regulatory red tape that makes advertising difficult, such as recreational cannabis, celebrities are the best way to get people talking about your product.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
• Why all this red tape in the way of the best and the brightest?
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2024
• Canal+’s listing in London would be a boon for the capital’s flagship market and comes as the local watchdog readies an overhaul of rules and a reduction of red tape aimed at attracting more listings.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 12 July 2024
• But that’s where the easy part of the project ends — and the red tape begins.
  — Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2022
• Kids play in the background, as members of the crowd joke about the red tape.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2022
• The grants are easy to apply for without a lot of red tape.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
• This means the team knows the struggle, the red tape and also how to overcome them.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
• Incentives to builders and plans to cut red tape are among the chief tools in the statewide effort.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2024
• But the rates never changed, despite the easing of red tape.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
• Bella cut through the red tape and threw down a Golden Buzzer free pass for Wheelz.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
• There’s quite a lot of red tape as to where cameras can be placed within the buildings, though.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• Plans to adapt the grid to clean energy are confronting mountains of red tape.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
• The team spent 17 days on board, but much of the work was waylaid by bureaucratic red tape.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
• Everything is always draped in miles and miles of red tape.
  — Fox News, 27 June 2022
• Gloria vowed to keep cutting through red tape at City Hall.
  — David Garrick jan. 11, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
• For Hsu, this red tape is the No. 1 reason Oxbryta hasn’t been more widely used.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 19 Dec. 2022
• Patzer pushed for 15 years to jump-start the data collection process but said she was stymied by red tape.
  — Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Peskin blamed the city’s housing dearth on market forces, not red tape.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Twenty twenty-three could be the year red tape loses its grip.
  — Jonathan Wolfson, National Review, 1 Feb. 2023
• The good news is the vessels will stay anchored while officials sort through that red tape.
  — [e-mail], Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2022
• Whether the plan can make it through government red tape – and the courts – is a different story.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• But now comes a bunch of red tape, including figuring out how to start the divorce process.
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 25 Dec. 2023
• However, the principle that Netflix still lets employees act on their own initiative without a lot of red tape is still embodied in the doc.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024