paper-pushing

Can a country of 300 million people subsist entirely on paper-pushing?

Though there is too much paper-pushing at Japanese banks, excess labor may not be a big problem.

They could be checked for validity while being counted, which would save some of the excess paper-pushing.

I realized that my poetry had to become absolutely necessary, with no paper-pushing or cheap conditions."

Come on, Jim, lets leave this spoiled brat to his paper-pushing.

Partrade, the junior jig, worked in administration-a specialty still called paper-pushing, though relatively little of it was on paper.

As a detective, Rios uses low-key methods that tend more to legalistic paper-pushing than criminal detection procedures.

He is said to know more about how the system works than anyone else, having done just about every paper-pushing and executive job in it except one: he's the highest-ranking judge never to have heard a case.

So he was surprised, as the refit neared completion, to find himself restless, bored with the routine of paper-pushing and staff meetings, feeling as if his brain was rusting, eager to get back into space.