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n. (plural of bureaucracy English)
Usage examples of "bureaucracies".
Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments.
But the best efforts of these bureaucracies does not remove the absolute need for a "cutting-edge mess"
Most bureaucracies before mine sought out and promoted people who avoided decisions.
You see it repeated in the systems of slavery, of welfare states, of caste-ridden religions, of socializing bureaucracies - in any system which creates and maintains dependencies.
However, detailed archaeological studies have shown that complex irrigation systems did not accompany the rise of centralized bureaucracies but followed after a considerable lag.
Such bureaucracies were essential not only to governing large and populous domains but also to maintaining standing armies, sending out fleets of exploration, and organizing wars of conquest.
Even small states have more complex bureaucracies than large chiefdoms.
Most Eurasian states had literate bureaucracies, and in some a significant fraction of the populace other than bureaucrats was also literate.
In these bureaucracies it's better to cry wolf and be wrong than to have your mouth shut when the big gray critter runs off with a sheep in his mouth.
In both bureaucracies, an off-the-reservation insight often got lost in the system, or was buried by those to whom it did not immediately occur.