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bureaucratic nightmare

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bureaucratic
adjective
uk /ˌbjʊə.rəˈkræt.ɪk/ us /ˌbjʊr.əˈkræt̬.ɪk/
relating to a system of controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number ...
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nightmare
noun[C]
uk /ˈnaɪt.meər/ us /ˈnaɪt.mer/
a very upsetting or ...
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Examples of bureaucratic nightmare


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Therefore, they had a hand in ensuring that the code was not a bureaucraticnightmare.
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The poll tax has been a bureaucraticnightmare.
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He has created a bureaucraticnightmare with which those centres will be unable to cope because they lack the necessary resources.
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It has said that the reforms are a bureaucraticnightmare and a recipe for fraud.
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We should not be getting into another bureaucraticnightmare at a time when we are trying to get out of them.
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I see that as a potential bureaucraticnightmare.
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There is a bureaucraticnightmare of responsibility and accountability that means that we fail to bring about the improvements that we desire.
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It will be good if we can avoid that bureaucraticnightmare wherever possible.
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In any case it will create a bureaucraticnightmare of recording and time schedules.
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However, what we get is yet another bureaucraticnightmare.
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It is a bureaucraticnightmare, but that is the nature of the society in which we live.
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How can he excuse the days of wasted time spent by teachers and head teachers in filling in a bureaucraticnightmare?
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Rather, it will help to produce a bureaucraticnightmare.
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The cost in time and effort of that bureaucraticnightmare is indefensible.
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The administration of the scheme will prove an even bigger bureaucraticnightmare than the administration of housing benefit by local authorities.
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Instead, we have had the bureaucraticnightmare of pervasive, pernickety controls over every aspect of the shape, size and quality of products.
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It is a recipe for a bureaucraticnightmare with zero safety gains.
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From that labyrinth, a bureaucraticnightmare has emerged.
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It is a bureaucraticnightmare that compounds the sense of rejection and exclusion that many claimants feel.
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Yes; but if it is a bureaucraticnightmare for small homes, why is it not for large ones?
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