But its report was watered down by the powerful bureaucracy.

It's hard to imagine the Russian empire without a powerful bureaucracy.

It was the second raid this year on the nation's most powerful bureaucracy, mired in allegations of influence-peddling.

A company in a fledgling market was protected for years from competition by Japan's powerful bureaucracy.

More than 40 years' experience of the planning system has established a powerful plan-making bureaucracy in central and local government.

She reformed the strong and powerful bureaucracy Peter the Great established.

Very powerful religious bureaucracies have been known to endure.

The powerful local bureaucracies are paying lip service to the policies of the central Government, but little else seems to have changed.

But the powerful Japanese bureaucracy is less convinced.

But only so it can be replaced by an even more powerful bureaucracy with expanded enforcement powers.