bureaucrat
Example Sentences
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Just silver, sitting there, quietly appreciating while bureaucrats in Beijing shuffle export applications into the “pending” pile.
From MarketWatch
"But these were exceptions to the rule - relying on individual brilliance rather than a system that will function even after the bureaucrat is long gone," says Mr Bisen.
From BBC
What had been a public trust became an internal conversation among bureaucrats, largely shielded from public scrutiny.
Their intended audience includes national security bureaucrats in the U.S. and abroad and the think-tankers and journalists obliged by a sense of professional responsibility to at least scan these generally leaden, cliché-ridden products of groupthink.
But the court’s answer, expected by July, will matter far beyond the job security of bureaucrats at boards and commissions with an alphabet soup of initials.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
