paper trail

How To Use paper trail In A Sentence

• this paper trail consisted mainly of electronically stored information
• I seem to remember seeing an expert say that a paper trail could compensate for flaky machines, and that there are ways to make the machines significantly hack-proof.
• There is a paper trail andno voting machine surprises or malfunctions. Life as a provisional voter
• By Wednesday, word was filtering through that the department's extensive investigations showed no paper trail of invoices, bills or other relevant documents.
• With no actual paper trail, votes could be tallied and lost, or not even counted at all.
• Souter's views on contentious issues were unknown, and the Bush administration wanted a nominee with no "paper trail" that could be used by Senate Democrats to "bork" him. BatesLine: June 2005 Archives
• Legislators make speeches, attend committee meetings, cast votes and leave a paper trail of positions taken and poses struck, mostly without consequences clearly ascribable to them as individuals.
• The goods end up sitting for far less time in the warehouse and much of the paper trail of dockets and receipts has been eliminated.
• The paper trail, while not long, provides sufficient supporting documentation.
• The nomination was greeted warmly by most on the political left, though a few have caterwauled that Ms. Kagan might be a "stealth" moderate because she lacks judicial experience and has a meager paper trail. Elena Obama