Many education reform efforts have been aimed at breaking the top-down model that imposes instructional guidelines and other rules devised by a distant bureaucracy.

We are fed up with a distant bureaucracy telling us what to do with our bikes.

She sees the state, in its local manifestation at least, as a faceless, alien and still distant bureaucracy.

Because it does not pick up the garbage or put out fires, the state government often seems a distant and passive bureaucracy.

This will not be the failed compassion of towering, distant bureaucracies.

Board Keeps a Key Function Advocates of change say an all-powerful, distant bureaucracy was crippling the schools.

"The decisions of Vatican Council II are not being applied, and we all suffer, on the ground, from a distant bureaucracy that is increasingly deaf," he said.

The European Union today is viewed by many, not least in my own country, as a distant bureaucracy.

The first was a general feeling that decision-making was being further removed from the citizens in favour of a distant bureaucracy.

In so doing, they not only gain a new sense of independence but also deal effectively with their own housing problems, whose solutions often escaped seemingly distant bureaucracies.