And there was a self-fulfilling bureaucratic pressure: they succeeded only if there was trouble.

Of course foreign policy decisions are made by persons who represent bureaucratic pressures on the outcome.

They all have their beliefs about what policy should be, and they all respond to bureaucratic and political pressures.

Kravchuk's reliance on bureaucratic pressure, support of pro-Western nationalists, and media bias did not serve him well.

That, in turn, would ease the legal, bureaucratic and social pressures that have in recent years strangled many of the Soviet Union's small businesses at birth.

More cautious measures proposed by Mr. Richardson are likely to succumb to bureaucratic pressure, the review board argued.

Bridling at the bureaucratic pressures and corruption at home, she was taken with what seemed to be the broad horizons of life in America.

But a look at the practice of one successful New York radiologist shows how that ambition is challenged by a variety of economic, political and bureaucratic pressures.

Conflicting bureaucratic and political pressures prevent any kind of unified approach and thus waste money, talent and time.

But local officials who fail to meet annual population control targets can still come under bureaucratic pressure to reduce births or face demotion or removal from office.