Depressing is really what Cuba has become—repression, bureaucracy, and crippling poverty.
In other words, what was once a matter of law, however imperfect, is now a matter of bureaucracy.
Only in bureaucracy or horror movies do people get in trouble for compelling acts of kindness.
When the mission becomes murky, and operations slow, bureaucracy creeps in to fill the gaps.
The ICAO, a bureaucracy with 191 members, is neither of those things.
It is but fair to say that venality is not one of the characteristics of the German bureaucracy.
You are from that hour regarded as one of the younger children of bureaucracy.
When this is understood, the nightmare of the bureaucracy of Socialism vanishes.
Even if the bureaucracy were omniscient, such a condition of life would be intolerable.
To live under a bureaucracy and not to see that it was funny!
1818, from French bureaucratie, coined by French economist Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759) on model of democratie, aristocratie, from bureau "office," literally "desk" (see bureau) + Greek suffix -kratia denoting "power of" (see -cracy).
That vast net-work of administrative tyranny ... that system of bureaucracy, which leaves no free agent in all France, except for the man at Paris who pulls the wires. [J.S. Mill, "Westminster Review" XXVIII, 1837]
bureaucrat, &c. The formation is so barbarous that all attempt at self-respect in pronunciation may perhaps as well be abandoned. [Fowler]
A formal, hierarchical organization with many levels in which tasks, responsibilities, and authority are delegated among individuals, offices, or departments, held together by a central administration. According to many sociologists and anthropologists, the development of bureaucratic organizations is necessary for the emergence of any modern civilization. (See Max Weber.)
Note: Today, the term bureaucracy suggests a lack of initiative, excessive adherence to rules and routine, red tape, inefficiency, or, even more serious, an impersonal force dominating the lives of individuals. (See Big Brother is watching you.)
