Example sentences for: bureaucrats

How can you use “bureaucrats” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bureaucrats being bureaucrats, efficiency and amiability vary from place to place, but the tourist information offices all provide useful maps and brochures.

  • She called Legal Aid after months of wrangling with federal bureaucrats who denied her request for financial help -- about $6,000 a year -- to provide speech therapy for her 2-year-old son, who was born with autism.

  • Orwell constructed an alternative future in his vision of the totalitarian state, Nineteen Eighty-Four . The work has given English a small lode of unpleasantries: the title itself connotes a society marked by government terror and propaganda destroying the public's consciousness of reality (the OED Supplement also accepts 1984 and 1984-ish as adjective forms); that government's official language, Newspeak , now indicates the propagandistic or ambiguous language of, among others, politicians, bureaucrats, and broadcasters (“revenue enhancement” for “tax increase,” etc.); the twisting of minds to the capacity to accept the validity of utterly contradictory opinions or beliefs, or double-think ; the book's head of state, Big Brother , implies an apparently benevolent, but really ruthless, omnipotent, and omniscient state authority.

  • In particular, the right is paranoid about bureaucrats at the Department of Education setting curricular standards or administering tests.

  • 5. National capital transformed "from dour city of bureaucrats into a magnet for multinationals."


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