In that instant, he foresaw the fights, the bureaucratic battles, the personal attacks.

Pluralists make it the outcome of bureaucratic battles within each state.

The stage is thus set for a nasty political and bureaucratic battle that the White House may have to resolve.

FOR about three years, flavor has been pitted against form in a bureaucratic battle over tomatoes.

Three years and many bureaucratic battles later, President Clinton has approved a compromise that moves in the right direction, but not far enough.

The policy-making process had become a bureaucratic battle for the opportunity to play on the President's prejudices.

Rice saw herself more as a personal adviser to the president than as a referee of bureaucratic battles.

Moreover, the bureaucratic battle was truly won only when those you defeated were led to imagine that they had, in some way, been victorious.

Other members of the group expressed concern that they might be pawns in what had become a bureaucratic battle.

Once again, she thinks, she must do bureaucratic battle to have him see the doctors he needs.