He had heard himself called a security-conscious paper-pusher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web of the Romulans] Reference

If I were a paper-pusher or a middle manager, I'd not feel that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teetering - And She Knits Too!] Reference

Prior to that he'd been an obscure CIA paper-pusher to whom no-one listened.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Three Cable Networks Describe O'Hanlon Or Pollack As War "Critics"] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't want our citizenry to have to wait for some paper-pusher in Washington to get it right.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2006] Reference

After today he†™ d no longer be a paper-pusher or a street cleaner or an asteroid skimmer or a window-washer.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2005 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

Valerie Plame was no mere analyst or paper-pusher at the CIA, David Corn writes, in an essay based on his new book, Hubris.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA] Reference

So Mr. Blair will be a paper-pusher, in charge of making ever important reports to ever important Quartet, leaving non-negotiations to Ms. Rice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Blair as Envoy] Reference

And this way we could see certain aliens again on a regular basis - a Vulcan, perhaps, for analysis; a Denulobian paper-pusher an alien Miss Moneypenny?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEXT "TREK": AN EXPANDED PROPOSAL] Reference

Collectively, we spend hundreds of thousands of hours in the woods-more than any paper-pusher in madison who is making these laws. anyone going to join me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deer populations are low] Reference

Somehow our forms had gotten separated, and it appeared to some paper-pusher that we had either overpaid on one application or grossly underpaid on the other. sigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference

Now imagine that the boss of this wreck is a weak-willed paper-pusher who abhors confrontations, and everyone knows he has a 70% chance of being fired at the end of the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Clusterf**K Continues] Reference

So we didn't directly write the first script together, but he was sending us ideas in, and he came up with the idea of a guy who loves to be a paper-pusher, actually relishes it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Ferrell, Adam McKay Celebrate 'The Other Guys'] Reference

And it was sort of that idea, the idea that there's new types of heroes, and that's sort of a little bit what informed Will's character, a guy who loves, you know, being a paper-pusher, Allen Gamble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Ferrell, Adam McKay Celebrate 'The Other Guys'] Reference

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Too busy, plus sad about being anonymous paper-pusher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

American intelligence officials might use "paper-pusher" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference

I'm not going to have a paper-pusher give his take on what kind of job I need to have.    From Wordnik.com.  [NBC Chicago - News Top Stories] Reference

Because we started with Will's character just being a paper-pusher guy, and it was just boring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinematical] Reference

And that informed the movie and Will Ferrell's character, a guy who loves being a paper-pusher.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Makes perfect sense (if you're a MoD paper-pusher who wants to recruit more canon-fodder for Afghanistan).    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

By definition, a paper-pusher is 'overhead'; their job doesn't 'create' wealth, keeping that person employed is pure 'cost'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas] Reference

Furthermore, that money should go as closely to the child who's being educated as possible, not used to hire yet another paper-pusher.    From Wordnik.com.  [HS Blog - Homeschool Blog] Reference

They twist Gogol's tale into that of an impoverished paper-pusher, Akaky, enslaved by his nine to five routine and grappling with his own meagre existence.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Sobered from her thespian dreams, April decides they should move lock, stock, and preschool barrel to Paris, where Frank can figure out his true muse while she brings home the bacon as ambassadorial paper-pusher.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Francisco Bay Guardian: Top Stories] Reference

That's sort of like saying, I'm supposed to be the lead paper-pusher for our band of kids, but being a new pack in our district and trying to reach critical mass means each one of our Parent "Akela" Volunteers needs to take some leadership role.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun Bloggers] Reference

“You think I’m just some paper-pusher, don’t you, Kirk?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harbinger] Reference

I have two very good graduate degrees, work more than 40 hours a week, and am still being paid less than industry standard. now i hear that i may lose my job. and no, i am not a paper-pusher.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Valerie Wilson was no analyst or paper-pusher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

The man's a chair-bound paper-pusher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deadly Years] Reference