How could a fairly complex state society exist without a writing system, an extensive bureaucracy or major urban centers, none of which Kush evidently had?

According to the health organization, the higher costs of private insurers are "mainly due to the extensive bureaucracy required to assess risk, rate premiums, design benefit packages and review, pay or refuse claims."

Add to those perverse incentives, the need to coordinate with the extensive bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland Security, and you have a perfect recipe for inertia.

It is virtually impossible in the case of China, with an extensive bureaucracy specifically responsible for concealing and even misrepresenting the origin of prison-made exports.

Doctors also contend that managed care, with its new employees and extensive bureaucracy, has itself added substantially to health-care costs.

Bureaucracy and Paperwork Behind the sprawling network of camps lay an extensive bureaucracy.

The school teams are now overseen by an extensive bureaucracy consisting of 32 district outposts, known as the Committees on Special Education.

He had completed the paperwork required, waded through the extensive bureaucracy, and having been stymied for days by naysayers and buck-passers, he appealed directly to the nagus.

This limits tourism from abroad to small groups admitted one at a time, and adds extensive bureaucracy to preparations.

The Caliph al-Radi was reduced to a figurehead role, while the extensive civil bureaucracy was cut down dramatically both in size and power.