Businessmen often complain of slow progress through a complex bureaucracy in their efforts to conclude deals in East Germany.

Even though the community reached a maximum population of about 300, it had a complex bureaucracy of 27 standing committees and 48 administrative sections.

This period is most famous for the establishment of complex bureaucracies and centralized governments, as well as a clearly established legal system.

In New York City, the system is a huge and complex bureaucracy.

The idea behind the program is simple: community-based organizations are likely to know more about a child's neighborhood and family environment than a fragmented, complex central bureaucracy.

While this preserved a kind of sovereignty and independence for tribes on reservations, in other ways they depended on a complex bureaucracy for services.

This required a large and complex bureaucracy staffed by competent and literate officials.

The long-term problem, however, is the slow implementation of this knowledge in practice, due to complex bureaucracy.

An enormous and complex bureaucracy has been established to administer the Structural Funds.

The problem is that the incredibly complex bureaucracy involved makes it virtually impossible for small and medium-sized businesses to get a look in.