Then, after years of bureaucratic hurdles, it is the National Institute on Drug Abuse that has held the final key to the lock.

A lot of hurdles.

Moreover, the main oil exporters are unwilling to subordinate their investment policies to market requirements. Saudi Arabia seeks to run its oil production independently, while Iran scares off potential investors with bureaucratic hurdles and corruption.

Patterns of current practice clearly indicate that either certain nationalities are not allowed to take up residence in France or the administrative and bureaucratic hurdles are such that nationals from certain countries tend not to request it

This inter institutional and multisectoral commission would also strive to improve the link between work at the local and national levels, ensure a high level commitment to overcome bureaucratic hurdles, and facilitate local coordination between the UN system and the Government.

Turkey s Failed Bureaucratic Coup

Violating our bureaucratic turf.

It's called the bureaucratic administrative machine.

You're always complaining about bureaucratic delays.

Its relatively poor business environment was highlighted by the World Bank s latest Doing Business survey. The section Starting a business, which identifies the bureaucratic and legal hurdles to incorporating and registering a new firm, ranks France in 35th place, whereas the UK ranks sixth and the US ranks third.

So this was the pre bureaucratic age.

In that respect, major hurdles that were identified five years ago persist.

Once these hurdles were overcome, the implementation of the study went smoothly.

Hurdles in converting informal remittance systems to formal systems through registration or licensing

The United Nations funds and programmes, and the organizations, tasked to provide humanitarian assistance for the people of Myanmar have been compelled to operate in a more restricted operational environment, with authorities imposing onerous fees, bureaucratic hurdles, and extensive restrictions on both travel to projects sites and the import of supplies and equipment.

Immigrants who overcame those legislative and institutional hurdles often faced intolerance and even violence.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

Well, I'm afraid you're going to suffer a short, condensed history lesson about what I would say are the three passages of history the pre bureaucratic age, the bureaucratic age and what we now live in, which I think is a post bureaucratic age.

The Agency faced many hurdles, not least among them the austerity measures introduced in the mid 1990s.

Taken together, these factors present a formidable set of hurdles to the sustainable development of small island developing States.

Obtaining approvals is a lengthy process that involves substantial documentation and tedious bureaucratic procedures.

We didn't only have the bureaucratic problems associated with that, was also had professional jealousies.

This was the pre bureaucratic age, an age in which everything had to be local.

So we're now living in a post bureaucratic age, where genuine people power is possible.

Existing bureaucratic obstacles have an enormous cost for business, as well as for state revenues.

There's many of these different kinds of hurdles besides technology challenges that we need to address before this becomes a reality.

Serious political hurdles still confront the peace process, and we must have the full cooperation of the parties to overcome them.

The schools would produce the people who would then become parts of the bureaucratic administrative machine.

These structures are often rigid, quite bureaucratic, dominating by men, and as such, intimidating for women.

It turns out that driving, with its associated design implementation and regulatory hurdles, is actually a harder problem to solve than flying.

This is good news, particularly for the poor. But many hurdles remain, and now the world must focus on three critical issues.

In the area of emergency activities in the occupied Palestinian territory UNRWA was facing enormous hurdles owing to violence, curfews and closures.

To put it simply, a sound management system cannot operate with rigid bureaucratic structures and institutional inflexibilities.

In many countries, the railway management, which was generally entangled in a bureaucratic culture, is being revolutionized.

He thought that creating other mechanisms for the workings of the Committee would create a bureaucratic nightmare.

The nature and quality of the resulting output faithfully reflects the closed and bureaucratic character of the process.

Unnecessary bureaucratic problems had delayed the disbursements for food for the prisoners, with severe consequences for their health.

He's been worn down completely by the minutia of the bureaucratic machine and the meaningless busyness it breeds.

He noted that negotiations between the European Union countries and Iran concerning the latter's atomic programme were facing some hurdles and causing some concern.

Now if this is what you want to do, you pretty quickly realize you're going to run into two pretty big hurdles, two big obstacles.

Now if this is what you want to do, you pretty quickly realize you're going to run into two pretty big hurdles, two big obstacles.

The Commonwealth silver medallist, who will compete in the 400m hurdles at her fifth World Championships, says it's incredible 16 Scots are in the British team.

Private doctors are reportedly frequently denied access to prisoners or must pass through such hurdles as obtaining a court order in order to gain such access.

Eliminating bureaucratic red tape, as the Commission has now pledged to do, would be a substantial boon to European researchers.

The World Bank suggests that the bureaucratic requirements to start a business in many countries are excessive and time consuming.