It had taken a di- saster for Patrick to come alive, to rise above the bureaucratic morass.

I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic morass for months.

What seemed like a simple request became stuck in a bureaucratic morass.

And if the application sinks into a bureaucratic morass, how is it best retrieved and acted upon?

Also, as the history of New York City shows, over-reliance on disparate groups to provide needed social services can result in a bureaucratic morass.

Today, the vacant land seems less a symbol of urban rebirth than of a bureaucratic and political morass.

Entire chapters, for the general reader, descend into a bureaucratic morass, enlivened here and there by a bright anecdote.

He wanted to simplify the bureaucratic morass by making a single worker accountable for each family.

But that is where the bureaucratic morass begins.

Lane, his records seemingly lost in the bureaucratic morass, remained in the war after all.