Perhaps their bureaucratic minds resented our fighting as we retreated.
Of course, we weren't cops-quite the contrary-but that thought wouldn't cross the bureaucratic mind.
Hitler did not have a bureaucratic mind and many of his most important instructions were given orally.
Whatever organization remained above the sector level must have more urgent things on its bureaucratic mind than an aggrieved Marine major.
The bureaucratic mind," he said, "will always find some way to meddle if at all possible.
In a case like this the bureaucratic mind finds it most easy to do nothing.
To alter that story would offer a discrepancy to the bureaucratic mind, making him a liar in the past and a suspect now.
The bureaucratic mind was part and parcel of every government employee in the known world.
Stunned, I sat and stared at the information that had been compiled with the precision of a bureaucratic mind.
I suspect the bureaucratic mind, at least, had something to do with it.