These Port managers, with their special knowledge and important position, tended to acquire the bureaucratic mentality: they said "no" automatically.

Black, on the other hand, represents both false patriotism and the bureaucratic mentality of a noncombat officer who interferes with the real business of a war.

Absolute anathema to the bureaucratic mentality.

But questions about its debts, bloated work force and bureaucratic mentality persist.

Used of humans, the term *is* pejorative and implies an uncreative, bureaucratic, by-the-book mentality.

It is these documentary finds that allow Mr. Levi to reconstruct the bureaucratic mentality of the Qin state.

"The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe."

That bureaucratic mentality, you could say, transmitted from late antiquity through the papacy to modern nation states, is what makes contemporary Brussels possible.

Another variant is influenced by organizational sociology and seeks to integrate Max Weber's work on bureaucratic mentality.

Social Security employees denied that their concerns were motivated by a bureaucratic mentality, a fear of change or a desire to protect their jobs.