Sentence examples for considerable red tape from inspiring English sources

When developers try, they inevitably face considerable red tape in getting regulations changed or obtaining special permits.

On signing S.S.I. into law in 1972, President Richard M. Nixon noted that a central goal was to address "great inequities and considerable red tape inherent in the present system of varying state programs with different benefits, eligibility standards and rules".

Rules require that an applicant must cut through considerable red tape before establishing a foreign-funded bank.

The legislation is murderous for small mom-and-pop retailers that are not equipped to navigate the considerable red tape and audit threats from thousands of taxing jurisdictions around the country, and no cakewalk for their bigger competitors.

The customers of the H&R Block branch, Ms. Hawa and Mr. Johns, finally received their allotted refunds recently after considerable headache and red tape.

Even though the world's greatest marathon runner cleared the last piece of government red tape to become an American citizen yesterday, there is considerable uncertainty about whether he will ever cross the tape at the finish line Oct. 1 at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

The red tape.

"No more red tape.

There was no red tape.

Red tape is being cut.

Talk about red tape.