21.   The Samish battle began with what their attorney, Russel Barsh, described as a bureaucratic nightmare.

22.   The simple act of enrolling a child in a public school becomes a huge bureaucratic nightmare when you are without a permanent address.

23.   The voter initiative, like the health proposal, promises little more than a bureaucratic nightmare that ensures failure.

24.   Their plan would have dismantled everything good in the system and led to a succession of bureaucratic nightmares.

25.   This new bureaucratic nightmare would not have passed Congress had it been subjected to the normal legislative procedure with public hearings and recorded votes.

26.   This, of course, created a bureaucratic nightmare that probably kept away more registrants than it attracted.

27.   What is more, he says, enforcement would be a bureaucratic nightmare.

28.   But Masic is caught in a bureaucratic nightmare -- trying to get home through government or private means, said Matt Monteleone of Charlotte.

29.   In the spring, Libya demanded that all foreign laborers register with the government, which turned into a bureaucratic nightmare and still causes anxiety among expatriates.

30.   Refugees who ask to come back battle a bureaucratic nightmare that makes reuniting families an ordeal that can last up to nine months.