bureaucratic structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbureaucraticandstructure
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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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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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This difference inbureaucraticstructureand mentality may also have influenced differing attitudes toward borders.
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Thebureaucraticstructureof the courts actually altered the substance of 'indigenous law'.
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How can we comparebureaucraticstructureand behavior over two hundred years without measuring something?
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However, the healthcare system in modern states is embedded in the total governmental andbureaucraticstructure.
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But they did not identify thebureaucraticstructureas the source of the problem.
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This interpretation complements historical evidence for an expandingbureaucraticstructureover time.
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A series of legal and governmental developments have led to the currentbureaucraticstructurefacilitating these projects.
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That would be an unwieldybureaucraticstructure.
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We do not need thisbureaucraticstructure.
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There are difficulties in the research councils'bureaucraticstructure.
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That is, the extent to which the state has to construct abureaucraticstructureto penetrate society so as to collect revenue from its citizens.
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Social workers are based near the bottom of a managerial andbureaucraticstructureand themselves often feel disempowered in their ability to help families in distress.
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Although providing benefits to roughly the same target population, they were difficult to administer, each scheme having its ownbureaucraticstructure, data collection, fiduciary responsibilities and reporting systems.
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Delay is caused in the short-term financing of export orders by thebureaucraticstructure.
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It had no in-built delays to satisfy a complexbureaucraticstructure.
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A new, lessbureaucraticstructureis needed for the steel industry.
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We are therefore entitled to know what all thisbureaucraticstructureis being erected for.
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But many companies, particularly small ones, do not have thebureaucraticstructurethat he describes.
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The internal market is not, nor should it be, a merelybureaucraticstructure.
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What newbureaucraticstructurewould be necessary to supply identity cards and control their use?
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We should not build a service which preserves the old national competition or the presentbureaucraticstructure.
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But there may be a half-way house between the present structure and a morebureaucraticstructure.
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It would be possible to create a verybureaucraticstructurethat did not even hit the target.
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Statutory prescription and the creation of abureaucraticstructureare not substitutes for willingness, freely expressed, to work together.
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