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From this the searcher withdrew a long envelope, tied with red tape.
Sydney, "Red tape"-ism dominant there, as it is everywhere in France.
In fact, "red tape" is the French official's refuge.
Guppy there, with a necktie much too smart for the rest of his clothes, and a bundle of documents tied with red tape.
I guess that's one reason why I haven't been away; I haven't had life enough to want to unwind red tape.
It was difficult to obtain either food or clothing, partly from the immense amount of "red tape" in official life.
The starting line was about a hundred yards from the red tape, and the contestants were compelled to stand back of this.
Others sailed blithely up toward the red tape and just fell short of clearing it.
The physical and mental strain is inevitably severe: in many cases this is unnecessarily increased by red-tape regulations that involve loss of time and temper and an amount of clerical work, which serves no useful purpose.
I supposed you must have unwound all that red tape long ago!
It looks like the country is strangled in red tape.
They are worshipers of legal form and red tape, my husband says.
I beg you to understand that this is not a mere question of red tape, if I may use the expression, of one extra altar or Holy Table, but it is a question of the services said at that altar or Holy Table.
"She's going to be rigged with some of your red tape, I'm afraid," said Captain Parish, with great friendliness.
He chafed under the red-tape formalities which obstructed the realization of his favorite scheme.
Red tape delayed us, and we growled savagely.
At length red tape was untied, and Thursday night the 8th and 71st set off, in cattle cars.
The delay was galling but had to be endured until the infinite maze of red tape was at an end.
American recovery may yet prove speedier than Soviet red tape.
No man is more perilously in danger of having his mind swathed in red tape and numbed by discipline than the soldier.
This is the resistance of quills and red tape.
He cut red tape and injected red blood into the Department that meant national preservation.
He had taken out several packets of paper neatly tied with red tape and seemed to be rearranging them.
It may take all day to get the red tape unwound, but I think we can be ready to start by oh-eight-hundred tomorrow.
Ken turned somewhat in disgust at so much red tape, and he jostled into a little fellow, almost knocking him over.
You remember his cursing out the delays and the red tape that hampered everything connected with the government.
Privateers are not hampered by official red tape.
There is a sort of inspired swing in it, the true lyrical lilt with which even red-tape has not dared to tamper!
We have to get from the government both an operator's license and a permit for the station; and although I put in the application promptly there is so much red tape about it that it seems as if the inspector would never show up.
One can't be inexact with the government's red tape.
They want me to promise to take charge of it, but I do not think it would be a wise thing, there is so much red tape and so many things about the military organization I do not understand, that I am afraid I would get into hot water at once.
We have already unraveled yards of red tape, and still there is no end.
"Red tape" they cursed, and stupid officialdom they loathed.
It was too good a piece of rescue work to be strangled with Red Tape.
He cut through the red tape of the transport service, red tape that had been annoying even the established hospitals.
If a man marries abroad there are many annoying bits of red tape to be considered.
As we are here for the deuce knows how long, the beloved army red tape and routine is coming into vogue again.
He had broken with his fatherland, he had thrown over dynastic laws, he had gone by his will alone, and no red tape.
The red tape that had to be "unwound" in getting this approved and returned almost proved my ruin.
These examinations should not conform in any perfunctory or red-tape manner to a literally construed course of study.
Mr Abraham Moses drew from his pocket a despatch, ornamented with a huge seal, and some official red tape.
Two causes have kept them from naturalization: first, their ignorance; second, the red tape of the procedure.
They are such illogical fools; a logical fool in an office, with a lot of red tape, is conceivable.
Just now, while the rangers are consulting the red tape, the trickster gets away with the goods.
No doubt overburdened by nonsensical red tape in your administrative duties.
Do all this honestly as man to man, and by the time you come to ride old John, you'll be able to do something more than sit on his back, and may feel his mouth with some stronger bridle than a red tape one.
Now a paid lecturer wants his check when his work is over, and although a vote of thanks, when it is spontaneous, is a compliment which he greatly appreciates, he is more likely to feel awkwardness than pleasure when it is a mere red-tape formality.
"By the time diplomatic protocol and military red tape got untangled we'd be old men," Scotty objected.
There is so much red tape about American heirs getting European property.
Then a lot of darn red tape, and my sergeant was reduced.
And now, when the most dangerous outbreak of all was imminent, once again Red Tape wriggled its way in.
Dudley was sorting some papers and deftly tying them into bundles with red tape.
He had folded the chart, and was tying the red tape fastenings.
He rebels, too, delightfully, against red tape and all the petty tyrannies of officialdom.
He is an ambitious young man, but got entangled in "red tape" and fell.
Let us not shut the people off from the books that they have paid for by a barbed wire fence of red tape.
Doubtless his extraordinary executive work in getting the Rough Riders ready for action and his methods which over-rode precedents and destroyed red tape throughout the whole of the War Department of that day had much to do with this.
Do all this honestly as man to man, and by the time you come to ride old John, you'll be able to do something more than sit on his back, and may feel his mouth with some stronger bridle than a red-tape one.
"A little against the rules," said the Chef smiling; "but life is full of inevitable exceptions, and because we stick to too much red tape, and will not recognize the need of exceptions, half life's worries occur."
Moreover, confidentially, we have one trick by which we slash through the red tape of railroad precision.
The corpse was taken to the Morgue, and the customary red tape was slowly unwound.
Red tape demanded that he receive the papers for his discharge from the Cape Town citadel.
He did all the things that can't be done, and when we spoke to him kindly about golfing etiquette he snorted and said he never had much use for red tape anyway and thought it was out of place in sport.
After the waste of much time and red tape, he finally received an official permission to visit the leper settlement.
He even went so far as to declare that he would leave the agency, but that was a matter that could not be attended to without considerable red tape, and in the meantime he was receiving a good salary where he was.
You can't tether healthy boys with red tape.
After his death his halves were discovered intact done up with red tape!
We will mention one thing which, perhaps more than any other, excites the public to use the taunt of red tape.
When I had, after the unwinding of endless red tape, collected the amount of the order, my journey seemed over indeed.
Ah well, you know we are sticklers for red tape.
Wholly free from formality and red tape, and willing to find in every soldier a man and a brother, he could yet maintain a perfect battle discipline and keep the hearts of his men steady under the most desperate conditions.
Avoid giving him the adverse suggestion of "red tape," formality, "iron-clad contracts," etc.
He dreamed also that there was a charm to prevent it, which was to get some red tape, have it blessed and sprinkled with holy water, and tie it round the children's necks till the month of May, when the season of danger would be past.
When they came to the Isthmus they found their hands tied by red tape.
Wallace found himself handicapped at every turn by red tape, a new thing in his experience as a construction engineer.
Later, he himself would row me out to the vessel and put me in my stateroom, free from further molestation of red tape.
You young people have no respect for red tape, and methodical business routine.
Witness had picked up a leather bag carefully tied at the top with red tape, drawn into hard knots; but in one side he found a hole which had been cut with a knife, and at the bottom of the bag was a twenty-dollar gold piece.
You just have to learn how to unwind yards and yards of Red Tape.
Even the problem of citizenship and the tangle of red tape his enlistment might involve did not impress him.
Total absence of red tape, and a delightful camaraderie between us.
Red-tape rules supreme in the management of the royal buildings, as the pensioners know to their cost.
When red tape hampered him, he cut it.
He was somewhat fussy in giving directions, and a stickler for red tape.
At headquarters there was no English red tape or delay.
It tasted slightly of the red tape and the chicory, but it was neatly prepared and promptly served.
We are held fast in the toils of officialdom and red tape, and too rude a shock would be needed to set us free.
This column has too much gold lace and red tape about it for South African warfare.
Their job was only to unload the train, but they could not let a wounded man lie waiting for red tape.
Then before the authorities could unwind the red tape of legal procedure they were off again to the wilds.
It is a bit of red tape trampled upon.
Demanded that dignitary, red tape not allowing him to comment on the accident.
Red-tape simply paralyzes the machine.
Red tape makes poor clothes and worse meals.
He therefore began a thorough overhauling of the various bureaus, cutting red tape in every direction.
There was one large tin box filled with red tape, which was his especial glory.
Stores were being hastily dumped on board, the usual "red tape" formalities having perforce to be dispensed with.
She was armed with full authority to cut the swathes of red tape that had proved shrouds to so many of our soldiers.
Red tape, several spools (for documents only).