Sentence examples for red tape of from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Red tape.

This is a negative term for the official paperwork and bureaucracy that we have to deal with.

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Describes needless red tape of Welfare Dept.

Texas boasts that it lacks the red tape of other states (read, California).

Dealing with the red tape of public aid eats up her days.

They are weighed down by the red tape of the Sarbanes-Oxley act, rushed into law by Congress after WorldCom.

That's not entirely their fault because they are so burdened by the choking red tape of employment law.

It tells the story of a carpenter who falls ill and struggles to navigate the red tape of welfare support.

The outs extol escape from human rights restrictions and from the "red tape" of EU social and working rights.

Fox sees the answer to all this as more slash and burn: of taxes, of red tape, of public spending.

She complained of the red tape of having to refer practically every move to Govan for his signature.

His grand economic plans were being strangled by the red tape of the "licence-permit raj", yet India could not feed itself.

In days gone by, the red tape of three countries would have made a dog's dinner out of the multi-border crossing we were about to do.

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