bureaucratic nightmare

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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nightmare
noun[C]
uk
/ˈnaɪt.meər/us
/ˈnaɪt.mer/
a very upsetting or ...
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(Definition ofbureaucraticandnightmarefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Therefore, they had a hand in ensuring that the code was not abureaucraticnightmare.
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The poll tax has been abureaucraticnightmare.
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He has created abureaucraticnightmarewith which those centres will be unable to cope because they lack the necessary resources.
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It has said that the reforms are abureaucraticnightmareand a recipe for fraud.
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We should not be getting into anotherbureaucraticnightmareat a time when we are trying to get out of them.
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I see that as a potentialbureaucraticnightmare.
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There is abureaucraticnightmareof responsibility and accountability that means that we fail to bring about the improvements that we desire.
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It will be good if we can avoid thatbureaucraticnightmarewherever possible.
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In any case it will create abureaucraticnightmareof recording and time schedules.
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However, what we get is yet anotherbureaucraticnightmare.
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It is abureaucraticnightmare, but that is the nature of the society in which we live.
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How can he excuse the days of wasted time spent by teachers and head teachers in filling in abureaucraticnightmare?
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Rather, it will help to produce abureaucraticnightmare.
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The cost in time and effort of thatbureaucraticnightmareis indefensible.
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The administration of the scheme will prove an even biggerbureaucraticnightmarethan the administration of housing benefit by local authorities.
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Instead, we have had thebureaucraticnightmareof pervasive, pernickety controls over every aspect of the shape, size and quality of products.
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It is a recipe for abureaucraticnightmarewith zero safety gains.
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From that labyrinth, abureaucraticnightmarehas emerged.
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It is abureaucraticnightmarethat compounds the sense of rejection and exclusion that many claimants feel.
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Yes; but if it is abureaucraticnightmarefor small homes, why is it not for large ones?
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