Despite the occasionally derogatory use of the terms "Byzantine" and "Byzantinism", the Byzantine bureaucracy had a distinct ability for reconstituting itself in accordance with the Empire's situation.

Dealing with the Byzantine Soviet bureaucracy has been at times frustrating for the Manhattan Quartet.

The vast Byzantine bureaucracy had many titles, and varied more than aristocratic and military titles.

The empire was formed and administrated on Western European feudal principles, incorporating some elements of the Byzantine bureaucracy.

Making Things Work In Brazil, there is even a professional intermediary called a "despachante" who knows who should be bribed to speed documents through the country's Byzantine bureaucracy.

Byzantine bureaucracy was, by comparison, a forthright system.

It would be illusory to think that changing chancellors would solve the ills of an agency with 105,000 employees, a $5 billion budget, a million students and an entrenched, Byzantine bureaucracy.

Supporting the Byzantine bureaucracy needed 400,000 nomismata.

Supporting the Byzantine bureaucracy needed 500,000 nomismata.

Indeed, a lack of inter-cultural experience on both sides combined with the traditional Byzantine Soviet bureaucracy and way of business proved to be the dooming factors for the game.