When I arrived, the government was harassing the volunteer convoys and throwing bureaucratic obstacles in front of foreign-aid workers.
He wants to remove the exemption that hospitals and hospices would enjoy through 2018 and knock down some of the bureaucratic hurdles in front of the commission.
He or she is a constant ally in what will be a lifelong fight held on numerous fronts: emotional, legal, bureaucratic, and of course, medical.
Area child protection committees (ACPCs) linking all the relevant agencies had become "unwieldy, bureaucratic and with limited impact on front-line services".
The reality for many large companies with thousands of employees is that decision making becomes bureaucratic, with layers of approvals separating front-line workers from the people accountable for decisions.
The start of the war in January had left some families on the home front feeling lost in the bureaucratic maze of the military.
In a recent issue, Chelsea had a front page article on the growing bureaucratic demands taking up teachers' time.
They should "see their role in terms of the quality of services delivered at the front door, rather than in administering bureaucratic and sometimes self-serving procedures".
Bureaucratic resistance stymied Cheney and Rumsfeld on several fronts.
As long as President Clinton publicly gives Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto of Japan such diplomatic praise as "an able man," Mr. Hashimoto and his bureaucratic pork-barrel allies will continue to strangle Japan (front page, April 4).
Low uptake of HealthSpace seemed to be partly because of patients' limited interest 24 and partly because the registration process was cumbersome and bureaucratic: They need to come in to, like the front office, because we check all their identification documents that they need.
