bureaucratic hurdle

collocation in English

meaningsofbureaucraticandhurdle

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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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hurdle
noun
uk
/ˈhɜː.dəl/
us
/ˈhɝː.dəl/
a frame or fence for jumping over in ...
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For the majority of small business men who operate fairly and decently, it is anotherbureaucratichurdlethat is placed in their way.
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It is a costly, time-wasting andbureaucratichurdle.
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This is really inserting anotherbureaucratichurdleinto the process of getting on to the road.
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I was just about to say that we have to have a very good cause for putting anotherbureaucratichurdleinto the lives of our people.
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Thebureaucratichurdleof applying for grant or licence approval, which can be extremely prolonged and expensive, is the single biggest cause of complaint among private woodland owners and managers.
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An overallbureaucratichurdleand non-transparent public administration create opportunities for corruption, and there is government favoritism towards domestic companies.
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Accessing grazing and farmlands by herdsmen has become more difficult and is often accompanied by bureaucratic hurdles.
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Bureaucratic hurdles have nothing whatever to do with the case—it is a lot of useless padding put in a brief.
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We aim to encourage enterprise, not to block it with bureaucratic hurdles.
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That is why we have deleted the national correspondents from the proposal and removed anything which might foster the growth of bureaucratic hurdles.
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We must not create new bureaucratic hurdles, and temporary work must continue to be affordable for small companies too.
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Accordingly, the bureaucratic hurdles that have to be overcome would be lower in this instance.
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This is because there are too many bureaucratic hurdles.
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There will be a nasty backlash if an appreciable number of electors are disenfranchised by the bureaucratic hurdles we ask them to cross.
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We want to ensure that there are no bureaucratic hurdles to hamper citizens' rights of freedom of movement and freedom of establishment.
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We are afraid that some local authorities are creating too many bureaucratic hurdles which hinder expansion and may even reduce provision.
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They want less regulation, and resent the complex political and bureaucratic hurdles that they have to tackle.
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We are also in favour of increasing the take-off weight to 20 tonnes, because we want to keep the bureaucratic hurdles for small operators to a minimum.
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We have the ability to meet this goal by performing a series of domestic tasks, the most important of which is the reduction of bureaucratic hurdles.
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There are administrative and bureaucratic hurdles for people trying to maintain the right to vote when they move around the country and do not have warning of elections.
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