Sentence examples for paperwork exercise from inspiring English sources

"The Visteon thing is just a paperwork exercise to get our books in order," he said.

Originally a paperwork exercise without any onsite inspection, BIS turned around its approval for 98 courses at a single institution in only four working days.

But they also can make their annual paperwork exercise do double duty by using it as an opportunity to plan financial strategies for 2000 and beyond.

Most federal managers view our government's performance measures as a paperwork exercise to keep them from getting into trouble with the Office of Management and Budget.

"It is not simply a paperwork exercise," said Shirley J. Wilcher, deputy assistant secretary for federal contract compliance in the Clinton administration who is now the interim executive director of the American Association for Affirmative Action.

In his letter, Mr. Markey said the May 26 directive had "become more of a meaningless paperwork exercise than an attempt to abide by the directive and eliminate surface applications of chemical dispersants".

Although some progress been made since a 1995 U.S. EPA assessment, 5-year reviews continue to be characterized as paperwork exercises that result in few executable recommendations (Nakamura and Church 2000).

Taxes, bills, annoying phone calls, paperwork, studying, exercise -- just a few of the many tasks we all procrastinate on.

Alas, I struggled for eight hours on the aforementioned paperwork, got no work or exercise done, drove to the bakery to buy cookies and eat away my stress, and then the girls fought all afternoon.

At the same time, the agency established an otter-free zone to address the concerns of fishermen and Navy officials, who feared that the otters would deplete sea urchin and shellfish stocks and that they would necessitate burdensome paperwork requirements before military training exercises.

For weeks at a time, they rose at 20 00 and completed exercises, drills and normal paperwork throughout the night before retiring at 13:00.