Saudi Arabia seeks to run its oil production independently, while Iran scares off potential investors with bureaucratic hurdles and corruption.

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.

Indeed, only three difficult hurdles remained.

Turkey s Failed Bureaucratic Coup

There are five hurdle heights on most standard hurdles.

Detailed, concrete, no bureaucratic speech.

A credible growth compact would help to overcome immediate hurdles.

So this was the pre bureaucratic age.

To implement it, however, a number of hurdles remain to be overcome.

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

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.

There was also bureaucratic resistance from existing regulators.

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

This means that three large steps are taken in between all of the hurdles.

Nor should it be restricted to hierarchical bureaucratic organizations.

November 9, 1989, was one of those rare moments when irony reigned, because East Germany s bureaucratic socialism died as it had lived with a bureaucratic snafu.

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 hurdles to further monetary policy action are high, but they are largely self imposed.

High hurdles to major shifts in policy direction force officials to make a convincing case.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

The differing constitutional requirements of States will be one of the major hurdles to be overcome.

It is no longer a traumatic experience, just a bureaucratic hassle.

In any case, the political consequences overshadow legal or bureaucratic issues.

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

I welcome Medvedev s emphasis on social concerns and his anti bureaucratic rhetoric.

Leadership degeneration accelerates as the autocratic regime ages and grows more bureaucratic.

Citizens associate the EU with, above all, bureaucratic grayness and technocratic rationality.

This change was associated with the shift from aristocratic to bureaucratic government.

Larger bureaucratic organizations can benefit from the flexibility of teams as well.

It relies on competition, rather than bureaucratic heavy handedness, to achieve its goals.

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

Bureaucratic and judicial reform ought to have priority in most countries in Latin America.

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

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.

As bureaucratic decision making became more risk averse, many large projects ground to a halt.

The same is true in systems where there is a strong sense of bureaucratic entitlement.

Cheney was better known as a ruthless bureaucratic operator than a man of bold ideas.

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

One of the most impending hurdles for religious freedom has been Egypt's ID card system and its requirement of religious affiliation.

If China surmounts these hurdles and does eventually become the world s predominant economic power, globalization will, indeed, take on Chinese characteristics.

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

Their instinct (and their bureaucratic interest) is to defend their countries national champion bank(s) abroad.

Others, however, see a Chinese strategy that is confused, contradictory, and paralyzed by competing bureaucratic interests.

Other bureaucratic decision makers, for their part, are increasingly constrained by requirements of transparency and disclosure.