Still, the bureaucratic tangles associated even with the lesser boycotts have frustrated American companies.

They grumble with good reason about bureaucratic and legal tangles.

"What we want to do is cut through a lot of the bureaucratic tangles and make it easier to get things done."

Out in the waiting room, people were seeking help with personal crises or bureaucratic tangles.

Just a bureaucratic tangle, they were told.

I may need your help navigating the bureaucratic tangle there.

You never fail to knot yourself up in bureaucratic tangles of your own making, do you?

He said that "jurisdictional and bureaucratic tangles" can also impede the investigation of crimes at sea.

What should have been a smooth affair got hopelessly caught in the bureaucratic tangle of the hospital.

The center's report attributed much of the blame to the Pentagon's bureaucratic tangle of regulations.