Sentences with phrase «pencil pushers»

The phrase "pencil pushers" refers to people who do office work that involves a lot of paperwork or administrative tasks. Full definition
asking people on the internet complicated legal things you should talk to a CPA», you have to understand that both the CPAs and the next pencil pushers in the government who are tasked to this will simply google it and form their opinion based on things that rank highly in SEO, like this exact question will.
Let's say it again... underwriting... brrrr... those blasted pencil pushers just making all our lives...
Let's say it again... underwriting... brrrr... those blasted pencil pushers just making all our lives more miserable.
Most are professional pencil pushers — not professional capital allocators.
«He basically told me I don't have it in me to work in this field and that he thought I would make a good pencil pusher,» she says.
After every secret agent in England is killed in the same explosion (okay, that's kinda funny), Walter Mitty-esque MI - 7 pencil pusher Johnny English (Atkinson) takes his position at the front of the line as Britain's newest superspy.
This time, she rides with a band of gung - ho military types (Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, etc.), as well as a nerdy pencil pusher (Paul Reiser) with an alternate agenda.
So, it's no surprise that the suave spy is able to enlist the jaded pencil pusher's technical assistance on his latest assignment.
Left to pick up the pieces and scrape together raw talent, Beane eyes redemption in the shape of chubby pencil pusher Peter Brand (Hill), whose obsession with at - base rankings gives him a Rain Man — like ability to spot potential even in the most broken players.
Yes, CIA agents are painted as one - dimensional pencil pushers jealous of and abusive to their physically superior security guards; yes, individual character weaknesses are exaggerated; yes, tragedies and fatalities are telegraphed from the opening scene.
I'm not sure whether Brooks should take it as a compliment or an insult to have been excluded, but it has to sting a little bit that Hill's downright catatonic bullpen pencil pusher usurped him in what seems clearly this year's biggest coattails nod.
All the decisions are made by a corporate Disney pencil pusher who cares nothing for Star Wars.
It is a shame that a bunch of politicians and pencil pushers have the authority to give permission to a bunch of barbarians to kill a beautiful creature for the fun of it.
In Lithuania there's also a local sports ministry and a basketball federation, each with a full complement of paper movers, pencil pushers and decision makers.
As I said at the beginning, you don't have to a be a rocket scientist to write a good program (for a pencil pusher).
And even if there are a ton of regulations that some pencil pushers at larger banks anecdotally cite (without citing), there will be enough banks that don't care.
Who cares if Goodwin «touched and met» each one of them — since when is a pencil pusher on dog fighting an expert of rescue and rehabilitation?
The plot synopsis describes you as somewhat of a pencil pusher, who has been given an assignment to save the degrading infrastructure of Stalburg, a fictional metropolis, that is rundown, and on the brink of economic collapse.
Makes John McClane look like a pencil pusher.
This particular regulator I went up against was not a pencil pusher he was very very bright and there was no way my attorney was going to prevail.
But, every attorney or pencil pusher i talk to is like «MAKE SURE YOU GET THE TITLE IN YOUR NAME!!!
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