The phrase "bureaucratic about" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It can be used to describe an individual or group who adhere to bureaucratic principles in a particular situation. For example: "The local government has been overly bureaucratic about approving new business licenses."
Added Jonathan Allen at Vox during the fiasco over the NY Times' botched "criminal" email story, "Ultimately -- at least for now -- this is a bureaucratic fight about how the State Department has handled the emails, not about Hillary Clinton".
There was always a bureaucratic thing about money, but no one was ever told how to write.
All a struggling mother, reliant on tax credits, needs to do is pop down the town hall, or HMRC, or wherever, then sit down and tell a bureaucratic stranger about the most traumatic experience of her life.
But Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain has zeroed in on the cost of running the Union, saying that "Brussels continues to exist as if in a parallel universe" and that the refusal to trim bureaucratic costs, about six percent of total spending, is "insulting to European taxpayers".
"It's a tough road," she said, citing all manner of bureaucratic tangles about health insurance, fading rehabilitation coverage, other financial demands beyond estimating, and endless tasks like the family's learning to move Ashley on a board to distant doctors' appointments.
One of the keys to Mr. Gore's behavior, the authors suggest, is an insecurity that they say many of his former aides believe "brought out his tendency to be bureaucratic, defensive about his turf, wooden in public presentation, prone to exaggerate his own accomplishments, impressed by resumes and the conventions of the establishment, and more timid than he wanted to be".
Mr. Foulke offered a bureaucratic response about paper work and procedures.
He and a couple dozen other responders and advocates attended numerous meetings where the talk about doing the right thing came mostly from them, while Capitol Hill staffers offered up bureaucratic jargon about caps, pay-fors and the legislative process.
While still on Page 1, the Council introduces an impressive amount of bureaucratic noise about exceptions to the rule needed to account for legitimate market making, hedging, and underwriting transactions.
In recent years politicians and their favourite thinkers have called for a "post-bureaucratic age" brought about by "double devolution" and "pro-social behaviour".
