Sentence examples for time-consuming red tape from inspiring English sources

But because researchers were planning to assess the results of implementing the checklist, their work met the strict definition of "research" and therefore required patients' formal informed consent, the approval of institutional review boards, and other expensive and time-consuming red tape.

These will probably turn out to be time-consuming red herrings.

Housing advocates and developers say they support the program's aim, which is to transform public housing from cruel and degrading places for those hunkered below the bottom rung of the real estate ladder into Levittown-like communities that fit into the neighborhood -- even though they concede the process is time-consuming and burdened by red tape.

With time constraints and legal red tape, a life can be lost.

Steve Lopez: Pizza maker burns time and dough on red tape.

Eventually he gave up and decided to punch in and punch out tapes instead, as the process was time-consuming and a more editable tape sent to Vig from Smart Studios was mostly ruined by one of Grohl's daughters.

After all, only politicians could dream up a costly, time-consuming bureaucratic exercise to cut costs and eradicate red tape.

At quitting time, we'd line up behind a red tape on the factory floor.

Federal (top down) programs are primarily politically driven and are fraught with red tape, regulation, time delays, and frustration.

I'm cutting red tape all the time.

It would be so much better to actually be able to handover verbally/face to face information re high risk families to the nurse that will be providing the care: currently too much red tape and admin blocks that are all too time consuming.