Some of those professional bureaucrats make more than that.

For example, there are three million professional bureaucrats in our Ministry of Agriculture.

Blumhaven's a professional bureaucrat, and that's about the nicest thing anyone's ever said about the man.

Most of the inquisitors seemed to be professional bureaucrats.

They include some of the best of Japan's professional bureaucrats and diplomats.

Deputy Ministers are not politicians but professional bureaucrats.

The professional bureaucrats who dominate the party apparatus would continue their successful efforts to undercut economic reform.

It's all left to us - the performers and the professional bureaucrats.

In Japan it is the professional bureaucrats, not the politically appointed Cabinet ministers, who make many important policy decisions.

At the meeting, one professional bureaucrat said he was afraid open elections would bring uneducated and unqualified people to power.