Sentence examples for bureaucratic steps from inspiring English sources

If a company's overseas conduct is at issue, government investigators must slog through numerous bureaucratic steps to gather evidence.

Setting up a new business can take 18 days and six bureaucratic steps, says the World Bank in the current version of its "Doing Business" database.

This procedure, involving a series of votes and bureaucratic steps, could take some four months to play itself out, a period most diplomats see as wildly unrealistic.

Ever since he found that his government demanded over 700 bureaucratic steps to obtain legal title to a house, Mr de Soto has argued that growth follows respect for the property rights of the poor.

Mr. Mayet said that he already had researched the bureaucratic steps needed to leave the church officially last year, after Pope Benedict XVI reinstated four excommunicated bishops, including Richard Williamson, who denied the Holocaust.

"It's easy to see how they can remain one step ahead of any police, especially in these countries where police forces usually lack resources and have to follow many bureaucratic steps and rules.

That bureaucratic step involves questioning about why they came.

She has seen how the smallest bureaucratic step can knock some aging people for a loop, bringing back terrible memories.

The last major bureaucratic step is a State Department review of the "national interest" in the project, which had been postponed while a Nebraska court considered a challenge to the route of the pipeline through that state.

The F.D.A.'s intentions came in the form of a bureaucratic step in which the agency must notify the Office of Management and Budget of its plans to publish a proposed new rule.

The ministry's planning and construction committee published its decision in Israeli newspapers on Wednesday in what the spokeswoman described as a purely bureaucratic step toward "expansion of an existing settlement".