I looked down on figures who, with their consorts, advisers, bureaucrats and academics, had delivered their own people to the vampires. |
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He wants to sack loads of bureaucrats, who will, ironically benefit most from the tax cuts if they are in their current jobs. |
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All parents would be rightly outraged if bureaucrats alone could choose where their kids could attend college. |
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The bureaucrats at the centre consider variation and innovation to be a threat and they resist it. |
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Her resolve to tackle the menace head-on gave a clear direction to the attending bureaucrats. |
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Was this the brainchild of ironic liberal bureaucrats at the Treasury Department? |
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Insensitive bureaucrats in the capital should not be allowed to procrastinate and thereby delay the delivery of food to the needy. |
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A small state with limited resources cannot afford to feed the army of bureaucrats and brass hats of the police. |
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For years these people have worked themselves into a lather about threats to our sovereignty from bureaucrats in Brussels. |
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Almost all of the bureaucrats at the information ministry have done very nicely for themselves since the war. |
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Not only the existence of corruption is denied but corrupt politicians and bureaucrats are vigorously defended. |
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A firm nexus has been established between amoral politicians, ambitious bureaucrats, unscrupulous businessmen and hardened criminals. |
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I mean she was terribly aware of the bureaucrats and administrators with their workings. |
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Hounded by petty bureaucrats out of his cramped offices on Calton Hill, art world legend Demarco has again landed on his feet. |
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However, many officials and bureaucrats agree that better management is essential. |
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Because the top concern of bureaucrats is to fend off future problems, the red tape piles up. |
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Office workers and bureaucrats in the cities dress much the same as they do in the West. |
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We'd save the 10 percent and the army of bureaucrats who administer the mess. |
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Yet politicians, bureaucrats, professionals and layman alike have immense faith in him. |
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The controllers form a separate class of corporate bureaucrats little different in outlook from civil servants. |
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His analysis applies whether the bureaucrats in question are public spirited or not. |
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Remote groups of corporate private capitalists were replaced by remote boards of corporate public bureaucrats. |
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An Africa where bureaucrats sit on plastic sofas and do bent deals from offices papered with Oxbridge degree certificates. |
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The real concern of the union bureaucrats is to not be left out of the ruling class' machinations. |
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I am all for catching my train more quickly, but I do wonder why the bureaucrats are evading a public debate. |
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This was because the senior bureaucrats being changed or shifted belonged to certain key departments. |
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For that kind of money, we deserve bureaucrats who aren't very bureaucratic. |
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But the so called ' leaders ' keep mum and even some of them encourage the bureaucrats to carry on with their bureaucratic bunglings. |
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Privatization of state firms has dragged on due to resistance from bureaucrats, unions and populist politicians. |
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They were ultimately kept out by Federal Emergency Management Agency bureaucrats because, among other things, they didn't have life preservers. |
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In contrast to the declamations of the bureaucrats and politicians, the mood among the workers at the rally was more somber. |
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Brussels bureaucrats may try to steamroller us into oneness, but people are stubborn. |
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The place still had an aura, and an odor, of corrupt bureaucrats and their intellectual lackeys about it. |
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Only an international outcry can move these bureaucrats to honor the constitution instead of the concordat. |
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Then let the bureaucrats pre-qualify the bidders by carefully scrutinizing their track records, resources and proposed fees. |
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Politicians and education bureaucrats are running a mile after parents in Moray saw off their efforts to close umpteen rural schools. |
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Quebec election bureaucrats have started crossing names off nomination papers with great and possibly unfair abandon. |
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But the expertise of bureaucrats makes it harder for inexpert politicians to hold them to account. |
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They say the rule that requires every lamb to be individually tagged shows how little the bureaucrats understand about farming. |
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The right to privacy is one of a democracy's givens and the media expose police and bureaucrats who invade it. |
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When you have so many bureaucrats and human beings corrupted by money, the problems pile up. |
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These immigrants have come from positions ranging from low-level bureaucrats to manual laborers. |
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This applies best to the ubiquitous tribe of personal assistants and clerks who surround the bureaucrats. |
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What, then, is the status of the direct, point-blank parody of bureaucrats scurrying behind blue blinds? |
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There they found a system run by bureaucrats where nationalism is frowned upon and democratic legislatures sidelined. |
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Just how many of the redundancies will be clinical or nursing staff, and how many will be pen-pushers and bureaucrats? |
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Alas, he had underestimated the vengeful meddlesomeness of the bureaucrats. |
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The second was made up of complacent industries relying on politicians and bureaucrats to protect them. |
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You have heard me talk about bureaucrats, even worse we now have Eurocrats! |
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Obviously the first conception can breed bureaucrats who are adept at figuring out ways to elude the law. |
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Known for his acerbic wit, sharp tongue, and occasional profanity, he stood out among the colorless bureaucrats who ruled Poland. |
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On both occasions politicians, academics and bureaucrats found themselves riding a tiger of unanticipated national emotion. |
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On the other hand the bureaucrats were wedded to social partnership and wanted to avoid conflict with the authorities at all costs. |
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So come on you penny-pinching bureaucrats, put yourselves in their shoes and re-think your selfish decisions. |
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The paper trail led far beyond the inspector to entrap top bureaucrats and key jurists in the web of corruption. |
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Judging by the news and links on its sites, this is a hot topic for the industry, bureaucrats and research organisations. |
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Executive decision-makers, both cabinet-level politicians and policy bureaucrats, are the key actors in policy formation. |
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The Hopis addressed the sacredness of the holy mountain, and the bureaucrats focused on how much space religious freedom required. |
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They're set to guard 9,000 leaders, trade negotiators, corporate bigwigs and bureaucrats. |
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They offer an apparently irresistible temptation to the bureaucrats and accountants who have become gatekeepers to our dreams. |
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It is surely the end of the line for these jumped-up bureaucrats with lots of power and not much sense of their democratic responsibilities. |
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Tycoons operate monopolies through the blessing of governments, central and regional, and with support from corrupt courts and bureaucrats. |
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Much of the limited aid intended to alleviate their plight has been siphoned off by government bureaucrats and sold on the black market. |
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The reason for that is that traders, particularly those in the dairy industry, are often outstripping or moving well ahead of the bureaucrats. |
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The fact that this situation has reached the point that it has is a poor reflection on the muddle-headed bureaucrats who run the game. |
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He waged war against the mountains of unintelligible gobbledygook that is regularly dumped on schools by government bureaucrats. |
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The organization used quiet diplomacy to work with Ontario's bureaucrats to promote multiple use of Quetico park. |
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Mr Williams and others who write to the papers contrive to imply that council staff are uniquely undeserving idle bureaucrats or lazy workmen. |
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O'Grady's depiction of treachery and oppression by Elizabethan bureaucrats recalled contemporary parallels, thought the reviewer. |
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Do you want more unelected bureaucrats taking over more details of your life and your family's life? |
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Many of the partnership claims of this and other networks are glossed to satisfy the needs of program bureaucrats. |
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Many politicians, bureaucrats and their families have benefited from this bonanza created on the backs of cheap immigrant labour. |
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It will depend on the ability of Canberra bureaucrats to come to terms with problems that are totally unfamiliar to them. |
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The government bureaucrats may continue in the old, wrong-headed, and unscientific rhetoric, but the public health people should know better. |
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Daniels' order made all of this subject to unilateral decision by state bureaucrats. |
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He painted government as the slothful bloated protector of welfare cheats, overpaid bureaucrats and useless politicians. |
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No doubt they have been used to employ some more bureaucrats to nanny us some more. |
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The real winners from regionalization were the regional bureaucrats, who were able to access large amounts of European money. |
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The book was to show how corporations and small-time bureaucrats conspire to sell out the people they purport to represent. |
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The rap against him is that he gets annoyed with do-nothing bureaucrats. |
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This is the work of bureaucrats who worked on it behind the back even of the ministerial level in Brussels. |
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To conclude, Melbourne is a vibrant, bustling metropolis, in which parking restrictions are enforced with far too much enthusiasm and vigour by jackbooted bureaucrats. |
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The payment of kickbacks to mid-level and senior bureaucrats is necessary for firms to win government procurement contracts in many parts of the world. |
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The major portion of its budget is consumed by the salaries of its huge staff, with bureaucrats and politicians appointing their own kith and kin or other favourites. |
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Gone are the wild-eyed revolutionaries in Donetsk and Luhansk, replaced by steely-eyed bureaucrats and seasoned combat veterans. |
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But this is of greater concern to the bureaucrats than to the Lapps, who have abandoned their nomadic existence in favour of full-fledged membership in the welfare state. |
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Rules banning traditional rocking horses for being too tall, announced just before Christmas, really did sound like the Brussels bureaucrats at their Scrooge-like worst. |
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They are asked to fill out some forms, then bureaucrats come around and ask them to fill out more forms, so people fill out several lots of different forms. |
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Not the hippies but the bureaucrats who absorbed bohemian language in service of govt. |
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There may be occasional problems over some matters but, in my experience, one should simply avoid tangling with bureaucrats whenever it is possible. |
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In the old days the uncertainty provided a lucrative source of supplemental income for town-hall bureaucrats who would tip you the wink for a little discreet baksheesh. |
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The desire to regulate becomes self-perpetuating, because bureaucrats who are not seeking to introduce further controls are clearly not doing their job. |
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The depredations of philistine governments and ignorant, self-seeking bureaucrats are not the sole cause of the changes I have witnessed in academic literary studies. |
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It allows for fine-tuning and self-selection of migration flows, yielding far better results than even the most well-meaning bureaucrats could ever achieve. |
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Some ministers and senior bureaucrats joined the ranks of the corrupt. |
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These mindful bureaucrats limited payments to state militias that had been directly mustered into federal service or those that had been called out with authorization. |
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Presidential assistants tend to view opposition as the product of selfish lobbyists and unimaginative bureaucrats. |
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The dismissal comes after Tanaka's latest row with bureaucrats and their political backers threatened to sidetrack Koizumi's goal of economic reforms. |
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But by responding slowly or uncooperatively to information requests from the commission, Administration officials or bureaucrats can gum up the works rather easily. |
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The constitution itself was drawn up by a panel of unelected bureaucrats. |
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Japanese bureaucrats had been famous for their unerringness. |
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And big business is often in an unholy alliance with bureaucrats and politicians who see a surveillance society as a quick fix for social and economic management problems. |
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The British government assembled some of the most able bureaucrats in Whitehall to oversee famine relief. |
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Laxman is telling politicians, bureaucrats, ministers and others that his common man is the unseen but unsleeping watchdog, telling the world at large of what is going on. |
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Europe might burn down its pampered class of bureaucrats and drag out its coats of arms. |
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That seems to be particularly true in Japan, where the taste of bureaucrats and executives who can't even choose their own neckties determines how whole cities look. |
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Easier to blame the unworldly bureaucrats in Whitehall or Brussels than recognise, never mind grapple with, the underlying tendencies to economic atrophy. |
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The notion, often peddled by politicians and bureaucrats, that there is some sort of trade-off between machines and people in a defence force is fundamentally flawed. |
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And what are the chances of redundant bureaucrats being made redundant? |
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An award-winning writer and an investigative journalist burrow deep into the world of spin-doctors, bureaucrats and the military to reveal the whole story. |
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There are certain areas where courts and bureaucrats have no business. |
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The attempt by the bureaucrats to save the environment is half-hearted. |
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We reject them because they will put still more power to politicians and bureaucrats, because they stifle economic development rather than fostering it. |
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The model of the command economy has been thoroughly discredited because bureaucrats have been even worse at allocating resources than business managers. |
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When bureaucrats pointed out the faux pas, she corrected the order. |
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The office is full of touts and bureaucrats who are out to make the process as lengthy and complicated as they can, in order to induce you to resort to a bribe. |
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By manipulating the Government, by insinuating themselves into Government positions they became bureaucrats and have done it through bureaucratic and administrative policies. |
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The bureaucrats must be feeling very pleased with themselves. |
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Nonetheless, government bureaucrats and scientists did not merely disagree with the specifcics of Dene and Inuit philosophies of wildlife management. |
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For long the debate on women bureaucrats has been confined to the glass ceiling and their ability to keep long working hours due to family pressures. |
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The increasing burden of legislation, designed by well meaning but desk-bound bureaucrats, ensured that only the very large could survive, unless they found a niche. |
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Look closely and you will see that in all the States and at the Centre, the perks and emoluments for these politicians and bureaucrats have spiralled up. |
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I am not in the business of trying to enrich people who would like to sit in the middle as bureaucrats, as sort of quasi-political business people. |
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When properly manipulated, bureaucrats can help dominators maintain their tight grip on markets while supplying a convenient scapegoat for unfair rules. |
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What is needed is a clean-out of those executives and bureaucrats. |
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Too many bureaucrats were decision-making ditherers and too many were only too willing to shift the blame to someone else when things went wrong. |
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Arguably, the whole public space becomes a Kemalist Panopticon as far as the bureaucrats are concerned. |
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Lower status was attributed to farmers, craft and tradesmen, shopkeepers, and government bureaucrats. |
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Among the major issues in these regimes are the incentive problems of subnational government bureaucrats. |
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This had a chilling effect on all civilian bureaucrats in the Japanese government. |
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In a small way, I'm only another environmentalist and have no time for stultified bureaucrats who can't change with the times. |
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Brussels bureaucrats last year sparked panic among Scots with a ruling on sporrans. |
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Seems like half the gubmint bureaucrats and snake oil politicians want to help us. |
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This continued through the Song dynasty, and by its peak power shifted from nobility to bureaucrats. |
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Are the CCCB bureaucrats not aware of the fact that many women do not want to see familiar prayers bastardized to suit the whims of feminists? |
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Southerners enjoyed lucrative careers as bureaucrats and service providers to the north, but very few ever chose to visit there. |
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For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff. |
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In Washington he has earned a reputation as a smooth operator who can handle lobbyists, bureaucrats and even Congressmen, with a cool head. |
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The persecution of the Metric Martyrs follows a long line of power usurpations by the EU's bureaucrats, legislators, and judges. |
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It just goes to show that EU bureaucrats are not the only people that should not be trusted with a map and marker pen. |
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It is also that the high-ranking bureaucrats are paid exorbitantly for their work, and too little is demanded of them. |
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The problem is not only that Los Angeles has too many high-ranking bureaucrats. |
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It would cut more than one million state jobs, including party bureaucrats who resist the changes. |
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Tony Blair's shame is that for the first time in history there are now more bean counters and bureaucrats than nurses. |
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I just hope our serving senior military staff officers in the MOD will be able to talk sense into these chairbound warrior bureaucrats at the next review. |
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Prime ministers under any Westminster system have ample freedom to appoint a large variety of individuals, such as judges, cabinet ministers, and other senior bureaucrats. |
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In Brazil, as in other developing countries, appointed bureaucrats are encouraged to advance the particular interests of their appointers as opposed to fostering agency goals. |
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To counteract bureaucrats, the system needs entrepreneurs and politicians. |
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Profundified words and phrases may dance around an issue without disturbing the neutral thought patterns of bureaucrats, politicians or members of boards of directors. |
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Sadly, some politicians, educational bureaucrats and others continue to raise phonics as the be-all and cure-all elixir for learning to read and write. |
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Yet, we are now supposed to have faith that bureaucrats, working in conjunction with the industry that has grown fat with federal dollars, will make everything copacetic. |
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The new government also immediately established new regulations governing contact between bureaucrats and politicians not holding cabinet or subcabinet appointments. |
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What does surprise, however, is the spinelessness of the UPA II ministers who tamely allowed their bureaucrats to manipulate them into a paralysis. |
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