In this gripping series, Smith recorded the impact of mercury poisoning on a small Japanese fishing village, as well as the protests and bureaucratic maneuverings that led the chemical company responsible for the pollution to admit its guilt.

The academic debates between datagram and virtual circuit raged for some time, but were eventually cut short by bureaucratic maneuvering.

While interpreting bureaucratic maneuverings in China is always difficult, many economists and bankers with connections in Beijing have said in recent weeks that an economic policy tussle is under way there.

In The Honourable Schoolboy it becomes clear that he is not as adept at bureaucratic maneuvering as the duplicitous Sam Collins and Saul Enderby, who are able to use even a great success to force him into retirement.

But then there's good old Houseman, who is more sophisticated than his down-home manner would suggest and pretty effective in the bureaucratic maneuvering that is necessary if justice is to be done.

A psychological thriller that explores the interior motions of self-policing; the narrator, a dedicated member of his college's sexual harassment committee, finds that sexual desire has become bureaucratic maneuvering and dreads the escape of his thought-crimes into action.

Journalist Stuart Weisman observed "Lindsay's congressional career had taught him little of the need for subtle bureaucratic maneuvering, for understanding an opponent's self-interest, or for the great patience required in a sprawling government."

This series of articles, based on nine months of investigation, has shed light on care delayed by red tape, shoddy facilities, and bureaucratic maneuvering to evade scrutiny and responsibility for the shortcomings of medical care for wounded troops.

The first son of Nakai Shuan, one of the two main founders of the Kaitokudo, he was just as adept in the external bureaucratic maneuvering of administration as his father.

But Millis was not adept at bureaucratic maneuvering, and did not understand that press attention could help him win battles with the NWLB.