Sentences with phrase «by city bureaucracy»

The project had been stalled for years by city bureaucracy and the recession and was finally getting new life.

Not exact matches

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Her list of offenders includes absent and abusive fathers, downsizing corporations, sports team owners too concerned with profit to show loyalty to the cities where teams were first formed, and armed forces too bloated by bureaucracy and careerism to provide the kind of first - among - equals training that helps boys become men with a vision of serving their communities.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

There may not be the bureaucracy in place to replace one system by another only for «citizens» of a particular city.

«Sadly the New York City Campaign Finance System was once hailed as a nationwide model, but it has devolved into a nitpicking, imperious bureaucracy, now chaired by a political appointee who was illegally installed by the outgoing mayor,» the suit says.

He predicted the order — which requires the new monitor to oversee all projects funded by the state and city — will mean NYCHA will lose control of its rebuilding projects and have to deal with yet another layer of bureaucracy.

Overwhelmed by superior technology, better military organization, or a persuasive new ideology, the pioneering civilization at Brak and its environs became an adjunct of the south, which went on to create even grander city - states, bureaucracies, and empires.

This vibrant urban sprawl, inspired by the colorful buildings of the real - life city of Guanajuato, is as marvelously imagined as the cerebral landscape of Inside Out or Monsters Inc.'s bustling Monstropolis, another densely packed world of wonders that's both familiar — there's a scene about skeleton bureaucracy that kills, I swear — and otherworldly.

Takeovers by mayors have overcome the blocking power of unions and district bureaucracies in New York, Hartford, Connecticut, and other cities, but they only work for a while.

Mired for decades in Byzantine bureaucracy that wasted untold millions of dollars and incalculable numbers of student academic lives, the New York City school system was wrestled to the ground by a billionaire mayor, and almost everyone applauded.

He is attempting to replicate the success of charter schools by freeing up to 200 district schools from the straitjackets of the union contract and city bureaucracy.

The consequences of these restrictions, along with the unwillingness of suburban district bureaucracies to embrace the array of systemic reforms taken on by big - city districts such as New York City, can be seen in the performance of children from low - income households on the National Assessment of Educational Progrcity districts such as New York City, can be seen in the performance of children from low - income households on the National Assessment of Educational ProgrCity, can be seen in the performance of children from low - income households on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

While the City Slept is a searing indictment of the mental health system in the United States, showing step - by - step how the failure of an overworked, underfunded bureaucracy led to a likely preventable human tragedy.