Sentence examples for red tape it from inspiring English sources

Indira Gandhi's "licence raj" was notorious by the 1970s for its regulations and red tape: it tried to limit the Bajaj group's production of motor vehicles by imposing absurdly small quotas.

While the U.S. government has often been criticized for its bureaucracy and red tape, it has also surprised us on more than a few occasions with bold, unprecedented initiatives launched mainly through its major executive pillars, the State Department and USAID.

It ties our members up in needless red tape, it swamps the GPS and renders its selection process haphazard and chaotic, it creates enormous frustrations within the departments that the GPS is meant to be serving - and, worst of all, it represents terrible value for the taxpayer".

"There was so much bureaucracy and red tape, it was bogging everything down.

With less red tape it has become harder for governments to measure trade accurately.

The government told us yesterday it wants to cut red tape, it says.

He told MPs regulation of gangmasters was abolished in 1994 because "apparently it was a manifestation of the nanny state, it involved red tape and it involved snooping.

A bowling club in another coastal town, he says, has managed to keep gulls off its green by crisscrossing it with red tape when it is not in use.

It will be a rough ride with plenty of fighting through red tape but it is doable if it is important enough.

American businesspeople may think they have it bad with OSHA and EEOC and EPA red tape, but it's worse in Japan, with nearly 11,000 regulations involving government licensing, approval and notification.

Agreed, that circus itself needs to change its perception in the minds of people but if the state were to allow festivals and remove some red tape when it comes to arranging such events, it would quicken things up.