To outsiders, the process of choosing party successors remains as opaquely Byzantine as ever.

在外人看来，党的接班过程仍然充斥着不透明和拜占庭主义。

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So while she continued her successful career here, she negotiated the byzantine process of obtaining a Mississippi medical license.

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These outside consultants describe their role as streamlining a somewhat Byzantine process.

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He said that until now, if a teacher was deemed incompetent, they were merely moved to another school because of the "complex and sometimes Byzantine" process of bringing a case against them.

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