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Example sentences for "bureaucrats"

Lexicographically close words:
bure; bureau; bureaucracy; bureaucrat; bureaucratic; bureaus; bureaux; burette; burg; burgage
  1. It was not surprising, therefore, that he permitted himself to be advised against the liberals by the most reactionary bureaucrats in the Empire, and to adopt the most oppressive policies.

  2. Nicholas II and all his bureaucrats could not return the chicken to the egg from which it had been hatched.

  3. To bureaucrats of the type of Pobiedonostzev and Von Plehve, with their fanatical belief in autocracy, these organizations of the people were so many plague spots.

  4. Did he specify hostility towards the bureaucrats or any resentment?

  5. Well, it was a matter of working then through these bureaucrats and the American bureaucrats.

  6. But their efforts were counterbalanced by the influence of defenders of the status quo, primarily the manpower bureaucrats in the secretary's office and their colleagues in the services.

  7. So slow and simple indeed, that they have allowed a few hundred German bureaucrats to go on governing them; thereby giving us a wrong impression of what they are thinking and wanting.

  8. Obviously, if Weimar could be seized, or even surrounded by the revolutionaries, the parliamentary system of government must collapse and a revolutionary Saxony would divide the Prussian bureaucrats from the South German burghers.

  9. And the actual work of government is probably handled by a corps of bureaucrats entrenched in their jobs, unwilling to exert any effort and afraid to invite any criticism, and living only to retire on their pensions.

  10. I suppose the Citadel teems with bureaucrats and such low life-forms?

  11. Russia sacrifices to surpass the West--but our bureaucrats don't.

  12. In Lenin's day the commissar was paid the same as the average worker, but today we have bureaucrats as wealthy as Western millionaires.

  13. The party of nobles under Norfolk, it is true, had deserted her; but Wolsey and the bureaucrats were still a power to be reckoned with, and the middle classes and the populace were all in favour of the Queen and the imperial alliance.

  14. Paris continued in a state of siege and the censors were the busiest bureaucrats in the capital.

  15. Dmowski, "that it would be fairer to withdraw one half of the German bureaucrats and give their places to Poles?

  16. Working without pay a great part of the time, in a period which offered no near solution for its disastrous troubles, bureaucrats saw in the increase of bureaucracy a possible inauguration of order.

  17. The old knights disappeared and hired government officials or bureaucrats took their place.

  18. When a party of students celebrated the tercentenary of the Reformation with noisy but harmless festivities on the old Wartburg, the Prussian bureaucrats had visions of an imminent revolution.

  19. We commonly speak, for instance, of Russia as if nothing in that vast country had any influence on foreign affairs except the opinions of a few bureaucrats in Petrograd.

  20. But he was bitterly disappointed to find that he could gather few supporters; the justiciar and the bureaucrats of the Curia Regis would give him no assistance; they worked on honestly in the name of the absent king.

  21. It is indeed a strange freak of nature that makes it possible that the human mind can think of Napoleon and these bureaucrats at the same time, but that is part of the mystery that cannot at the present stage be understood.

  22. She knew the Polish dislike for the language of the bureaucrats and government who had oppressed them for generations.

  23. Ian knew, too, what rumors were afloat; that petty Russian bureaucrats were saying that the Poles would side with the invaders and Polish recruits refuse to fight.

  24. Freed from the inadequacy and inefficiency of the bureaucrats who have misruled us, we'll develop a productive machine that will be the envy of the world!

  25. Let me tell you, Chief, these boys I'm working with now are sharp, they've got more on the ball than these Commie bureaucrats running the country have a dozen times over.

  26. He came from ancient samurai stock--fittingly perhaps, since the bureaucrats of modern Japan are mostly of that class.

  27. Now the next step will be to start phasing out the demokurasu frills and the powerless prime minister and the MITI bureaucrats and turning the place into a kick-ass machine again.

  28. There must have been something bigger than bureaucrats behind it all.

  29. To attribute these forward movements merely to the designs of bureaucrats is, then, to take but a shallow view.

  30. Bureaucrats and priests must have something far more powerful behind them than intrigues and trickery.

  31. In all these cases where one country advanced into the territory of another the forward movement has been attributed to the intrigues of bureaucrats or the crafty designs of scheming politicians.

  32. If men like Lord Morley and Sir Edward Grey so act, may it not be inferred that bureaucrats also are carried along against their will by some strange force?

  33. The bureaucrats of Rome were of the most miscellaneous origins and traditions; the bureaucrats of China were, and are still, made in the same mould, all members of one tradition.

  34. But by that time the bureaucrats of St. Petersburg had no more use for the Jewish friends of enlightenment.

  35. It is scarcely necessary to add that the bold voice of the Russian dignitary, who in a lucid interval spoke up in a manner reminiscent of the civilized West, was not listened to by the bureaucrats of St. Petersburg.

  36. Tycoons and politicians, industrialists and bureaucrats all vie for the attention of Mammon.

  37. A topsy-turvy continent adrift among the gales of newspeak, under the gaze of a million grey bureaucrats passing for big brothers.

  38. Even in the armed transports that carried officials and bureaucrats and experienced police organizers to set up a puppet government on Kandar, there was not the faintest hint of anything that happened outside the individual ship.

  39. The Mekinese fleet was destroyed to the last ship, even to the armed transports carrying bureaucrats and police to set up a new government on Kandar.

  40. Portsmouth, was not so pleased with the action of President Roosevelt as he ought to have been, and the arrogant clique, the bureaucrats who controlled the Tsar, regarded us with suspicion and dislike.

  41. In spite of the desperate efforts of the militarists and bureaucrats to conserve narrow patriotism and racial pride, it has been found increasingly difficult to do so, since the facts and thoughts of the West became accessible to the people.

  42. Yet their racial and religious prejudices were strong and made them unwilling to accept in place of the bureaucrats the dominance of an unprogressive habitant majority.

  43. The opposition to the bureaucrats at first included both English and French elements, but the English minority were pulled in contrary ways.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bureaucrats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.