Some also questioned the sincerity of what they called Washington's permanent bureaucracy to the idea of democracy in a Muslim country.

"I fear it is becoming a permanent, overblown bureaucracy."

But Japan's trade policy is controlled more by the permanent bureaucracy than by politicians, and the bureaucrats' tough stand was clear in the new report.

A public official must see the permanent bureaucracy that surrounds him as the enemy of change it is.

It is the permanent bureaucracy that implements the decisions of the Union's government.

Some advocates for the office, in fact, have regarded its lack of a permanent bureaucracy as the key to its aggressiveness and independence.

Their economic team is far superior to the one Reagan had and so is the permanent bureaucracy.

The service provides permanent bureaucracy and functionary staff in the Central Government of India.

Once a person joins the permanent bureaucracy, he or she can be dismissed only for just cause.

He must realize that his own appointees are easily captured by the permanent bureaucracy and turned against change.