AIDS prevention advocates here have had to contend with suspicious neighborhoods, sluggish bureaucracies and hostile police officers.

An unacceptably high dropout rate, particularly among black and Hispanic students, a sluggish bureaucracy and decaying buildings testify to the system's advanced deterioration.

Mr. Gorbachev, on the other hand, recognized that his sluggish and authoritarian bureaucracy was the worst impediment to modernization.

This traditional form of government meant sluggish centralized bureaucracies preoccupied with rules and hierarchy, Mr. Osborne said.

At times, it seemed that her coalition was fighting sluggish bureaucracies and corporate obtuseness as much as the obvious symptoms of urban blight.

Many residents have moved to the suburbs to, among other things, escape the sluggish bureaucracy of large cities.

To adapt to the increasing complexities of modern business life, an organisation cannot afford to be a sluggish bureaucracy.

In other words, combine sluggish bureaucracy and blinkered strategy and you come up with an almost lethal combination.

We must root out sluggish bureaucracy.

A sluggish bureaucracy permitted the wrongdoing to flourish until it became a way of life.