The president and his bureaucratic apparatus, which occupy a building of their own, are known collectively as "the center."

This spreads the money, yields political dividends and justifies the bureaucratic apparatus.

For example, new taxes and corvées had to be approved by him directly rather than left to the judgement of the bureaucratic apparatus.

Europe is awash with badly contaminated foods, and our bureaucratic apparatus clearly does not know what to do about it.

"He just tried to improve things by bringing in order, strengthening discipline, holding the bureaucratic apparatus more accountable, forming the plan better."

However, the sluggish and top-heavy bureaucratic apparatus of the City Council could not be moved to action.

"The small community of Kuvaq likes to keep its bureaucratic apparatus slick and efficient.

A complicated bureaucratic apparatus governed censorship at home.

In large industrial cities, the organization set up an elaborate bureaucratic apparatus resembling that of Narkompros.

Even where noble interests constituted no barrier, the government's effective power was severely limited by the rudimentary nature of the bureaucratic apparatus available to it.

However, we must consider whether the European Union budget is sufficient to allocate additional financial resources to increase and maintain the bureaucratic apparatus.

Both the third and fourth characteristics are the result of control and use of a bureaucratic apparatus for radical aims.

It is fairly reflective of the EU that the solution proposed will lead to a more regulated world with a vast bureaucratic apparatus.

They were deliberately nurtured by the regime as an elite destined to man the upper reaches of the military and bureaucratic apparatus of the State.

On the contrary, the risk of an independent bureaucratic apparatus developing is greater the more financially independent from their members the parties' apparatus becomes.

"Khrushchev failed to completely break the bureaucratic apparatus, though he made attempts to push it aside," Mr. Adzhubei said.

The affected students argue that enhancing the age limit will hurt no one but help enhance competition and give better officers to the country's failing bureaucratic apparatus.

This organization should gradually replace the bureaucratic apparatus and form the relations in the educational sphere on the basis of equal rights, direct democracy and cooperation.

The Government's control over the military and bureaucratic apparatus will allow it to mobilize pro-Pinochet voters, Mr. Zaldivar said.

The Rasulid state was comparatively centralized and kept an extensive bureaucratic apparatus to oversee the collection of taxes and other needs of the state.

And this task is also being accomplished by the OSCE's bureaucratic apparatus, which is absolutely not connected with the state founders in any way.

"Yesterday showed that the force of the bureaucratic apparatus is still strong," said one speaker, Vladimir A. Tikhonov, an economist who was among the rejected deputies.

The EU is very good at extending its competences and adding to its bureaucratic apparatus but has little to show for its activity and expenditure.

Djilas, particularly, wrote extensively against Stalinism and was radically critical of the bureaucratic apparatus built by Bolshevism in Soviet Union.

Shifting competences from the national infrastructure operators to the one-stop shops will result in a fragmentation of responsibilities and thus in an inflation of the bureaucratic apparatus.