9. Matthew Modine At first, Matthew Modine's character, Captain Foley, is a mustache twirl away from flat-out bureaucratic villainy.
Ahmed asked for a cot in a Green Zone trailer and was given the yes/no answer equal parts personal sympathy and bureaucratic delay which sometimes felt worse than a flat refusal.
The combination of an overwhelming number of priorities, flat budgets, an outmoded structure and bureaucratic rivalries resulted in an insufficient response to this new challenge.
Ahmed asked for a cot in a Green Zone trailer and was given the yes/no answer — equal parts personal sympathy and bureaucratic delay — which sometimes felt worse than a flat refusal.
Political networks project the hierarchical organizational structure of bureaucratic systems in the economic field while professional networks project a flat organizational structure.
Wearing a flat cap of a kind favored at country steeplechases, and trying breathlessly to explain the bureaucratic intricacies of the expenses system, he avoided, for several minutes, responding directly to the BBC reporter's insistent questions about the moat.
It resists bureaucratic subversion.
