red tape in English

noun
1
excessive bureaucracy or adherence to rules and formalities, especially in public business.
this law will just create more red tape

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "red tape" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "red tape", or refer to the context using the word "red tape" in the English Dictionary.

1. That added red tape and bureaucracy

2. Bureaucratitis (uncountable) Excessive bureaucracy; red tape

3. Mandates oversight without adding red tape.

4. He'll bog us down with red tape.

5. There are regulations, laws and red tape.

6. We must cut through the red tape.

7. Red tape encumbered all our attempts at action.

8. What annoyed me most was the red tape.

9. But red tape is an inevitable result of reform.

10. Perhaps you would prefer to avoid the red tape

11. You can get a bunch of digital red tape.

12. Well, after the official red tape has been cut.

13. Many blame Britain's decline on too much red tape.

14. It takes weeks to get through the red tape.

15. U.S. companies fear the red tape will scare off customers.

16. The new rules should help cut the red tape for farmers.

17. Red tape everywhere I went. They sent me from pillar to post.

18. 5 Because of all red tape at immigration I missed my connecting flight.

19. The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.

20. You have to go through endless red tape to get a residence permit.

21. We got bogged down in a morass of detail and bureaucratic red tape.

22. cutting red tape through the payment of fixed fees without checks on actual costs;

23. Sometimes it's necessary to cut though the red tape and strike at the matter.

24. Dysfunctions of Bureaucracies can include red tape, lack of communication between units, and alienation

25. Red tape and bureaucracy are the most frequently given reasons for people working underground.

26. We embrace our rules and red tape to prevent bad things from happening, of course.

27. This is the basis of our efforts towards transition from ‘Red Tape’ to ‘Red Carpet’.”

28. - Multiannual guidance programme for the craft industry (tax reforms, access to credit, competition, red tape);

29. An Anemic supply chain, poor infrastructure, and government red tape have kept manufacturers away for years

30. A red tape was sewn to one trouser leg and to one arm of our jacket.

31. It avoids unnecessary red tape and keeps administrative costs for citizens and enterprises to a minimum.

32. But after years of training, fighting red tape and vicious sexism, Gera lasted for one game.

33. When I asked for more information, he suddenly got amnesia and threw red tape in my face.

34. It talks about only another layer of government and more red tape and state control, not less.

35. There had been red tape to contend with all along - but at last the children were back.

36. Action plans with ambitious targets and deadlines should also be adopted to reduce red tape, UNICE added.

37. The urban renewal administrative process drew considerable criticism because it was so long and encumbered with red tape.

38. 2 The urban renewal administrative process drew considerable criticism because it was so long and encumbered with red tape.

39. The urban renewal administrative process drew considerable criticism because it was so long and encumbered with red tape. Sentencedict.com

40. One vexing problem is the inconsistency of the red tape that ensnares businessmen when they try to do practically anything.

41. Former rally driver Jean Denton is battling to reduce red tape and bureaucratic burdens on small firms and start-ups.

42. Therefore, their secret agenda is how best to strangle the utilities with as much bureaucracy and red tape as possible.

43. They must ensure financial management can be strengthened without adding more red tape and burden on departments and line managers.

44. Wright said lobbying to keep red tape and regulatory cost to a minimum for local companies will be a priority.

45. The reduction of regulatory red tape, in particular, will help stimulate innovation and success in Europe's SME sector,' Mr Zennstrom added.

46. Its official policy is anti-Western, and it obstructs aid organisations with so much red tape that they have become discouraged.

47. They are terrified by Labour party proposals to create a great new machine spitting out red tape all over the countryside.

48. If you think our red tape is formidable, remember Morocco is heavily influenced by the French, who invented the word Bureaucrat.

49. The Commission's own internal culture of Cautiousness and red tape is a constraint that nobody in Brussels much likes to talk about.

50. In order to avoid sowing confusion and adding to red-tape, the creation of new Community certification schemes should not be supported