bureaucratic control

collocation in English

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bureaucratic
adjective
uk
/ˌbjʊə.rəˈkræt.ɪk/
us
/ˌbjʊr.əˈkræt̬.ɪk/
relating to a system of controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number ...
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control
noun
uk
/kənˈtrəʊl/
us
/kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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The focus of science and technology studies has tended to be material technology, artifacts and instruments, rather thanbureaucraticcontrolsystems.
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At any rate, rural decollectivization cannot be simplified as a wholesale liberalization of the rural economy from politics andbureaucraticcontrol.
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Refugees cannot be disentangled from the modern state and itsbureaucraticcontrolover immigration, naturalization, visas, and the granting of asylum and refugee status.
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The state hoped for better oversight over religious expression in the country by legitimizing cer tain aspects of it and establishingbureaucraticcontrolover it.
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In this way, the authority of the prefects and thebureaucraticcontrolstructure were preserved within the state assistance system.
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But among batch producers, advocates ofbureaucraticcontrolhad to contend with a different vision consistent with a more diverse production context.
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One tendency, as we have been arguing, was towards a scientific authoritarianism, extendingbureaucraticcontroland infringing local rights in often overtly repressive ways.
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Bureaucraticcontrolover the politics of permanent defence necessarily had its effects on the orientation given to coffee policies.
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The privacy of the home remains untarnished by the intrusions of an externalbureaucraticcontrol; the con_icting imperatives of discipline and domesticity may be negotiated successfully below stairs.
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Agricultural and forest policy now aligned closely with desiccationism, extendingbureaucraticcontrol and exerting profound - and damaging - effects on rural livelihoods.
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They were abureaucraticcontrol, and the net result was that training became a dirty word.
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The coal industry should not be saddled withbureaucraticcontroleffected by large numbers of inspectors, officials, etc.
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In state hands, industries are subsidised by taxpayers, suffocated by political andbureaucraticcontroland denied the chance to compete overseas.
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Any administrative system involvesbureaucraticcontrol, and safety administration requires some form of bureaucracy.
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They tend not to democratic control but to autocratic andbureaucraticcontrol.
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How could it be a sham if there was to be this tightbureaucraticcontrol?
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The present method is of course the inevitable consequence of the application of a system ofbureaucraticcontrolto the free natural processes of industry.
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Bus transport policy has been subjected for too long to restrictive andbureaucraticcontrol.
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