red-tapists

Such considerations as these, however, have no weight with red-tapists, who believe in the infallibility of precedents, and apply one measure and one standard to all things.

The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges William Ferneley Allen

America, for the benefit of the red-tapists and other place-holders of the Imperial government, but a stamp Act was passed through the

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

Now, let the red-tapists dare to point to his past when I ask anything for him and I'll overwhelm them with the living present!

The Last Shot Frederick Palmer 1915

Dick concluded with an emphatic declaration that the Right Honourable Gentleman's day was gone by; that the people had been pillaged and plundered enough by pompous red-tapists, who only thought of their salaries, and never went to their offices except to waste the pen, ink, and paper which they did not pay for; that the Right Honourable Gentleman had boasted he had served his country for twenty years.

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Right Honourable Gentleman's day was gone by; that the people had been pillaged and plundered enough by pompous red-tapists, who only thought of their salaries, and never went to their offices except to waste the pen, ink, and paper which they did not pay for; that the Right Honourable

My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

My mother goes with me, to provide support against pigheaded red-tapists, she says, and I don’t mind.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

My mother goes with me, to provide support against pigheaded red-tapists, she says, and I don’t mind.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

It is the antipodes of Lord Carnarvon, and yet how they tally in what they have in common, and that is much ” the people, the scenery of Galicia, and the suspicions and absurdities of Spanish Jacks-in-office, who yield not in ignorance or insolence to any kind of red-tapists, hatched in the hot-beds of jobbery and utilitarian mares-nests ...

A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911