1.   Bureaucratic procedures were to be streamlined, so that applications from companies seeking licences for exploration would be decided within a three-month period.

2.   Arafat has yet to create a solid system of accountability, they acknowledge, but say that donors have become bogged down in their own bureaucratic procedures.

3.   But once a department or agency approves a regulation, it has the force of law, and can be changed only through tedious bureaucratic procedures.

4.   Cuban-Americans returning to visit relatives have long criticized cumbersome and costly bureaucratic procedures that ignore their American citizenship and treat them as Cuban nationals.

5.   In exchange, they will be allowed to devise their own pollution control plans without having to follow the usual cumbersome bureaucratic procedures.

6.   The censor board, a very archaic bureaucratic procedure, devoured my life for four months.

7.   The loan will support investment reform, including simplifying laws and easing bureaucratic procedures, said IADB.

8.   The result is unofficial until it is authorized by the new prime minister, a bureaucratic procedure scheduled for Wednesday, the elections commission said.

9.   Panangian said foreigners disliked the fact that they had to go through a long and tedious bureaucratic procedure to buy property.

10.   Bambang said he hoped Rahardi would not be bound by long bureaucratic procedures during his term as industry and trade minister.