administrative machinery

collocation in English

meaningsofadministrativeandmachinery

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administrative
adjective
uk
/ədˈmɪn.ɪ.strə.tɪv/us
/ədˈmɪn.ə.strə.t̬ɪv/
relating to the arrangements and work that is needed to control the operation of a plan ...
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machinery
noun[U]
uk
/məˈʃiː.nər.i/us
/məˈʃiː.nɚ.i/
a group of large machines or the parts of a machine that make ...
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(Definition ofadministrativeandmachineryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The yearly subsidies from the central treasury (excluding loan and assistance) keep afloat theadministrativemachineryof the regional governments.
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Apparently, as earlier indicated, the main concern in the decision-making process is keeping afloat regionaladministrativemachineryby covering recurrent expenditure, especially salary costs.
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Rather, it was to try to put back on track anadministrativemachineryconsidered on the whole as inefficient.
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All samples of delinquents are affected by theadministrativemachinerythrough which they have been selected.
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Instead, they proposed small pilot programs or used existingadministrativemachineryto give new programs a trial run without statutory authorization.
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That quality is vitiated once domestic functions take on the cast ofadministrativemachinery.
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The smooth running of the network was ensured by the ruling regimes through their systems of courts, law andadministrativemachinery.
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Without this basic condition, the scrupulous adherence to 'custom' could not be ensured, nor would the system of checks and balances built into theadministrativemachineryprove effective.
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Theadministrativemachinerybroke down completely.
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I guess that it may or may not be so, and that it depends upon theadministrativemachinerywhich is devised.
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They are neglecting these people although there are funds available and the necessaryadministrativemachineryto provide the remedy.
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It has not: it is working as briskly as it can within theadministrativemachinerywithin which it finds itself.
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There is a well- established method, in the ordinaryadministrativemachineryof the country, for dealing with those matters.
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We need a fresher approach to our problems and to match ouradministrativemachineryto the revolutionary age in which we live.
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There was no failure in theadministrativemachineryof the criminal law.
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I submit that my suggestion would improve a very valuable piece ofadministrativemachinery.
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It will be after the time when we can get theadministrativemachineryin operation.
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The other side of the coin is the use that it is now widely believed theadministrativemachineryis making of the 714 certificate.
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The second breaks new ground and sets out a code of provisions, chiefly relating to matters ofadministrativemachinery, for dealing with the overspill problem.
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