They can combine to create a bureaucratic labyrinth and stymie the best-laid plans.

Its 5,200 workers seem trapped in the same bureaucratic labyrinth they are often accused of creating.

"We have a bureaucratic labyrinth."

Harry had come to regard Parker Center as a bureaucratic labyrinth that hindered rather than eased the job of the cop on the street.

Anyone erroneously denied a card in this bureaucratic labyrinth would be unemployable.

Sometimes it's a bureaucratic labyrinth or a cash cow for impoverished economies.

But, first, the applicants must make their way through a bureaucratic labyrinth.

New regulations will "create a bureaucratic labyrinth," she says, and she continues to lobby lawmakers to preserve the current system.

Farmers are counting on the additional special funds being provided now rather than disappearing in an interminable bureaucratic labyrinth.

Josef himself is summoned to register at a government building that bears an uncanny resemblance to one of Kafka's bureaucratic labyrinths.