Instead of creating a ponderous bureaucracy, he subcontracted most of the construction work, hiring top Indian and foreign engineering firms.

One consequence is that no writer of any integrity has been left unscarred from battles with the ponderous bureaucracies charged with enforcing cultural orthodoxy.

In hopes of streamlining Pemex's ponderous bureaucracy, executives are now at work on a sweeping reorganization in which the company has been divided into independent sectors.

Gradually, an increasingly literate population outstripped an economy weighed down by a ponderous bureaucracy and state management that still hamper doing business here.

The spies are hobbled by a culture of timidity and by the proclivity of any ponderous bureaucracy to eschew risk and waddle behind the curve.

He is credited with streamlining the federation's ponderous bureaucracy.

It is even possible that the technicians and administrators in the ponderous and often inert Iraqi bureaucracy are responding to political pressures now.

He says that Watson-level artificial intelligence could make it significantly easier for citizens to get answers quickly from massive, ponderous bureaucracies.

The Soviet Union was a ponderous bureaucracy that moved at the glacial speed of the five-year plan.

What's more, the Government's inability to collect a big share of the bounty in taxes created runaway inflation that impoverished the nation's ponderous bureaucracy.