Sentence examples for bureaucratic figures from inspiring English sources

This antierotic notion of breasts as ear muffs recurs sporadically throughout "Sexie"; so does his confessed tendency to finger his bosom when dealing with bureaucratic figures like customs officials.

Victor, the slave-catcher in "Underground Airlines," is interesting not only because he is a former fugitive but because he is an essentially bureaucratic figure — one of many such people employed by the federal government to navigate and enforce the byzantine system by which slavery endures.

Presented as a precise science, viability is nothing of the sort; it is a form of bureaucratic alchemy, figures fiddled with spreadsheet spells that can be made to conjure any outcome desired.

Mr. Holder's speech had been repeatedly delayed amid bureaucratic reviews by other figures on the national security team.

Though Kafka's legal background figures heavily in this bureaucratic satire, man's own irrational morality is also on trial here.

On the other hand, Mr Hersi sought to present himself as an isolated figure in a highly bureaucratic system that prevented him from knowing about, or having any responsibility for, al-Shabab's brutal activities.

Tells how he figures that government bureaucrats are a stronger force for conversion than the board, and that metrication might come about through what amounts to the bureaucratic imperative.

Margano said that the discrepancies between the figures were due to technical and bureaucratic problems in Indonesia and better information becoming available.

Yet a careful look at budget figures for the U.S. military -- a bureaucratic juggernaut accounting for 57% of the federal discretionary budget and nearly 40% of all military spending on this planet -- shows that such claims have been largely fictional.

Once, assembling a class roster was a bureaucratic routine, something parents didn't know about or figured was somebody else's job.

It's like this bureaucratic Nigerian government — they are the greatest at numerology, hiding figures, changing them to suit their purposes.