Sentence examples for bureaucratic skill from inspiring English sources

Will he have the bureaucratic skill to outmaneuver the long knives of Steve Bannon and his shadow National Security Council?

That the President seems to have changed his mind is an indication, in part, of the bureaucratic skill of the Administration's conservatives.

In his scholarship, careful patronage and freedom from convention, the national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, brought insight and bureaucratic skill that would make him the president's singular partner in statesmanship, most notably their opening to China and détente with the Soviet Union.

But extensive interviews with current and former officials and a review of confidential documents reveal that the legal strategy took shape as the ambition of a small core of conservative administration officials whose political influence and bureaucratic skill gave them remarkable power in the aftermath of the attacks.

Whether or not DeGette's optimism is warranted, Francis Collins's bureaucratic skills will be severely tested in the coming struggle.

He honed his bureaucratic skills as White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford, and during 10 years in Congress and 4 as defense secretary under the first President Bush.

Tawane and his friends, for example, are extremely articulate and have completely mastered the language and bureaucratic skills of the NGO world they inhabit.

The second revealed his political and bureaucratic skills at work, honed by years of robust negotiation with the Greek colonels' junta and Archbishop Makarios.

But seven months into his second tour at the Pentagon there is speculation about whether Mr. Rumsfeld's legendary bureaucratic skills can deal with the enormous challenges he faces not only in his own department but from others in the cabinet.

The officials said the White House sought a candidate who has the operational and bureaucratic skills of Mr. Armitage and the recognition and Congressional ties of someone like Donald H. Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense.

Good interpersonal and bureaucratic skills make a real difference in what one can accomplish.