Early in his tenure as defense secretary, Mr. Weinberger learned that he could not change the sprawling military bureaucracy overnight.

Under the best of circumstances, the Pentagon is a sprawling, balkanized bureaucracy of vested interests, which is very difficult to manage.

The sprawling bureaucracy has been consolidated from 32 community districts and other offices into 10 instructional divisions, or regions.

Chicago's housing agency, a sprawling bureaucracy, has become a national metaphor for red tape, waste, segregation and neglect of buildings and people.

But Mr. Vallone said part of the Council's responsibility was to get the administration to cut the sprawling bureaucracy.

However, this can also lead to less control or freedom as emergent properties are created, like a new government program leading to a sprawling bureaucracy.

He is drafting an austerity budget that will cut public spending and sharply reduce the sprawling bureaucracy in Manila.

Since 1959, this institution, set among pine trees and steep slopes, has been at the heart of India's sprawling bureaucracy.

Since.... then, our government has grown into a sprawling and expensive bureaucracy.

The contract dispute is the latest obstacle in the Police Department's struggle to bring a sprawling bureaucracy, notorious for its paperwork, into the information age.