For years, it was dismissed by gun-control advocates as an ineffective bureaucracy hobbled by Congress and prohibited even from maintaining a national registry of weapons purchases.

Punch is aggravated by his whining child, nagging wife (Judy), and ineffective bureaucracy.

Both were established independent of A.I.D., long perceived in Washington as an ineffective bureaucracy.

Calling the Board of Education a "multilayered, hydra-headed, ineffective bureaucracy," Mr. Green, the public advocate, said, "Chancellor Levy is doing a good job in an impossible situation."

The school system is faced with large classes and an ineffective bureaucracy.

Over the years A.I.D. developed a reputation in Washington as a bloated and ineffective bureaucracy.

The United Nations draws even more hostility, especially from Congressional Republicans who view it as a bloated, ineffective bureaucracy forever linked with ill-fated forays into peacekeeping.

Camera work focused closely on the faces of the ambulance crew to capture changes in their state of mind in their persistent efforts to work despite lack of means, exhaustion and ineffective bureaucracy.

Teachers so recruited to work in the city's low-performing schools will be faced with the harsh reality of an ineffective bureaucracy, inadequate support and seemingly insurmountable social problems.

Is the Mayor, who endorsed almost all the Cuomo recommendations and then established six committees to figure out mostly how to carry them out over the next 18 months, moving aggressively to overhaul an ineffective bureaucracy?