What is "bureaucratic"

Usage examples of "bureaucratic".

And even among reforming writers who could wax indignant at every other kind of abuse and anachronism, there was little enthusiasm for some sort of nonvenal, bureaucratic state.

And yet, despite all thisthe binational bureaucratic cult, the old-style corporatism that survived the passage from war to peace, the mystique of nonaccountability symbolized by the sovereign, the stunted aspects of the new imperial democracyMacArthur was quite accurate when he spoke of a society that had undergone significant change.

Bureaucratic botching, thoroughly unmilitary, characterized the execution of the policy from start to finish.

James Boulin Chartwell, III, was a firm devotee of the bureaucratic school that spoke in Capital Letters.

He is a bureaucrat, and his heroism is bureaucratic, with a genius for navigating cluttered fields.

Mostly they seem to study and take advantage of bureaucratic and jurisprudential loopholes, quite legally enabling their clients to stick it to their ex-husbands or deadbeat creditors or whomever.

All that the Michaelites asked was that the city provide a reasonable location and protection from the bureaucratic inertia of local government.

Byron stalked out, galled by this frustrating finale to the long trek from Australia: a bureaucratic stone wall, mildewy with snide anti-Semitism, in a Marseilles consulate.

Earth has been taken over by a nasty, corrupt, bureaucratic military dictatorship, more banana republic writ large and high-tech than efficiently fascist, though utterly fascist economically, run in an amoral fashion by a generalissimo named Myson for the greedy profit of himself and his cronies.

At the present time, unfortunately, all signs point, not to decentralization and the abolition of man-herders, but rather to a steady increase in the power of the Big Shepherd and his oligarchy of bureaucratic dogs, to a growth in the size, the complexity, the machine-like efficiency and rigidity of social organizations, and to a completer deification of the State, accompanied by a completer reification, or reduction to thing-hood, of individual persons.

Things have fallen roughly into layers, over a base of bureaucratic smegma that sifts steadily to the bottom, made up of millions of tiny red and brown curls of rubber eraser, pencil shavings, dried tea or coffee stains, traces of sugar and Household Milk, much cigarette ash, very fine black debris picked and flung from typewriter ribbons, decomposing library paste, broken aspirins ground to powder.

In the privacy of the back room, they had kicked around how much or how little to tell Vann about the bureaucratic warfare dimensions of their working together.

Its magic for us is the magic that our culture has systematically marginalized in the rational, scientific, secular, and bureaucratic disenchantment of the world.

He made the prime ministership much more accessible to the average citizen and sometimes used its powers in helping the little man overcome the inevitable injustices of bureaucratic administration.

By stressing the social equity of the work of tax assessment and by co-opting personnel who might otherwise have been expected to belong to the Parlementaire camp, the government was trying to show that the reforms were popular rather than bureaucratic.