Decisions are often taken informally, bypassing official procedures.
That, at least, is the official procedure.
I never get an official response to my question, because there is no official procedure, and this, I soon learn, is the official procedure.
Follow the official procedure.
Businesses, institutions and government, local and central, are still obsessed with demanding we disclose our gender to them, and worse, putting in place protracted and difficult procedures for changing it.
However, saturation biopsies have been criticized for their invasiveness (often involving >50 biopsies), protracted procedure time and their expense because each biopsy must be interpreted by a pathologist.
Second, a heavy administrative burden is imposed on grantees complying with the foundations' sometimes detailed and protracted application and reporting procedures.
Team Auto's idea was to bypass the traditional bankruptcy procedure, in which the entire company would be restructured through a protracted process of negotiation with creditors.
The legislation would set up protracted procedures that critics say would enable Fannie and Freddie to continue to use their enormous political clout with Congress to beat back proposals that their executives view as onerous.
Short and infrequent breath holds reduce the temporal efficiency of both PET/CT imaging and treatment delivery, leading to protracted procedures that may no longer be clinically viable.
Military officials, however, continue to make transfers more difficult and protracted than necessary, administration officials said.
