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Mahometans, old Pagan Romans, Jews, Scythians and heathen Greeks, and indeed more or less all men that God made, have managed at one time to see into; nay which thou thyself, till 'redtape' strangled the inner life of thee, hadst once some inkling of:
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Romans, Jews, Scythians and heathen Greeks, and indeed more or less all men that God made, have managed at one time to see into; nay which thou thyself, till 'redtape' strangled the inner life of thee, hadst once some inkling of: That there _is_ justice here below; and even, at bottom, that there is nothing else but justice!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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That is why NPI's Electricity 2.0 Initiative will soon be unveiling our proposal for the Green Lane -- a lane on the electricity highway to which every clean producer will have an open on ramp -- that will allow clean electrons to go from any point to any point on the US network -- without running into a host of barriers and redtape.
Michael Moynihan: Winning the Future Michael Moynihan 2011
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That is why NPI's Electricity 2.0 Initiative will soon be unveiling our proposal for the Green Lane -- a lane on the electricity highway to which every clean producer will have an open on ramp -- that will allow clean electrons to go from any point to any point on the US network -- without running into a host of barriers and redtape.
Michael Moynihan: Winning the Future Michael Moynihan 2011
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They may even ask wemasters to license the web domains with a separate redtape entrenched department for this.
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Since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic redtape.
Farewell, Mr. Sense 2009
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Since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic redtape.
Farewell, Mr. Sense 2009
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I think one of the barriers to painters and photographers capturing lovely modern homes for posterity deals with the paranoya and redtape accompanying modern privacy concerns.
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The daylong summit would discuss issues like removing hurdles and bureaucratic redtape and ask the J&K state government to take steps towards it, he added.
J&K Chief Minister inaugurating Kashmir Economic Summit organized by KPCC on Saturday in New Delhi 2009
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Since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic redtape.
January 2009 2009
pdfero commented on the word redtape
Redtape: The bureaucratic process of piling on one requirement after another to accomplish even the smallest task.
July 23, 2009