1.   The official procedure for obtaining a visa can turn into a bureaucratic nightmare.

2.   Trying to enforce the law regulating the length of passenger buses has been a bureaucratic nightmare.

3.   Any central bank selling of gold after that point will become a bureaucratic nightmare, he said.

4.   Applying adequate forest management techniques, however, could be a bureaucratic nightmare.

5.   At the same time, obtaining the necessary federal permits to clean flood control channels has been a bureaucratic nightmare, he said.

6.   Bob Vice, president of the National Council of Agricultural Employers, has called such requirements a bureaucratic nightmare.

7.   A statewide quarantine of wood products that currently limits the movement of wood products containing the pathogen would create a bureaucratic nightmare for timber companies.

8.   But critics say it has evolved instead into a bureaucratic nightmare in which all teachers are considered equal and interchangeable.

9.   But it was the purloined drugs that triggered a bureaucratic nightmare.

10.   But the exchange has been a bureaucratic nightmare and the government has been forced to push back its deadline several times.