Sentence examples for red tape itself from inspiring English sources

If Wikipedia is to be believed, red tape itself was a 16th century response to the problem of bureaucracy, used to make important documents stand out from the mass of administrivia that even then threatened to overwhelm the system.

The red tape.

"No more red tape.

Talk about red tape.

Slashing red tape.

It is red tape.

She loathed red tape.

Nobody likes red tape.

There was no red tape.

Red tape is being cut.

The World Bank measures red tape.