He can appoint top-drawer Cabinet secretaries to help manage the bureaucratic empire, but he can never relinquish his control over Government activities.

Royal servants were therefore anxious to extend the boundaries of their bureaucratic empires whenever possible, and to defend them against encroachment at all times.

If there is a domestic policy task before the political class this decade, it is to help people acquire the mental skills they need to run their own lives, without running up ruinous welfare costs or building sclerotic bureaucratic empires.

With her most recent Government experience as a mid-level Treasury analyst, some critics here say that Miss Mello lacks the background to manage such an enormous bureaucratic empire.

His Majesty's government'll have to decide how big a bureaucratic empire it wants to create for the benefit of some primitives.

The core elements of this framework are a type of the state (continental bureaucratic empire) that manifests three main properties in its organization.

Many of them came from NASA itself, from corners of that sprawling bureaucratic empire called things like the Mission Definition Office or the Mars Exploration Studies Office.

Pointedly, in her speech to the Federal Assembly she called on Czechoslovakia to join her in opposing the creation of "new bureaucratic empires".

But he will be judged by his firmness in making appointments, cutting into bureaucratic empires and fending off pressures from governments demanding jobs.

The subjects of the Roman empire were Catholics, civilized subjects of a long-established bureaucratic empire.