paper trail

In those cases we need to see a paper trail history of original documents showing the origins of that money.

By that we mean that we want to see a clear paper trail, supported by original documents, showing where the money originated from.

She has never been a judge, so she has no paper trail of rulings.

Mr Kim's operatives then withdrew the money - in cash, in order not to leave a paper trail - and transferred it to banks in Luxembourg.

Professor Jones clarified later that when he had told me that his paper trail was insufficient he meant data trail.

"And under the law, they don't have to leave a dollars-and-cents paper trail that reflects the efforts they're making, " he says.

And of course, there was no paper trail.

In this manner, the paper trail serves AS a "backup" or substitute protection for the requirement of a "balanced" committee.

At any rate, with a touch-screen system the paper-trail is produced by the machine, and so is only as good as the machine.

This meant that each lot of sacks had to be kept separately, with a corresponding paper trail.

Start keeping a paper trail. Get him to send instructions in email, so he can't claim he told you to do something when he didn't.

However, there is at least a public paper trail.

Curt was a shrewd lawyer with a talent for uncovering paper trail of fraud.

He was a shrewd lawyer with a talent for uncovering paper trail of fraud.

His colleagues said that keeping a paper trail was not one of Professor Jones' strong points.

Third, the agency should insist that a CLEAR paper trail be established concerning how the scientific and policy questions were resolved.

One difficulty is that courts require a paper trail, not just statistical irregularities, to be convinced that wrongdoing occurred.

This "paper trail" should enable interested persons, including those who oversee the agency.

they create a paper trail. More important, writing a document is a process of turning vague, unformed ideas into explicit plans.

But the paper trail shows that the mayor did indeed follow the agreed-upon course of action, more or less.

A steady paper trail of bills , grades, pay stubs, and catalogs helps us create our individual identity.

Here's why people liked the telegraph: It was universal, inexpensive, asynchronous and it left a paper trail.

One good strategy: Create a paper trail by copying your boss one-mail ( selectively ! ).

In order to see why this causes a problem, let's follow the paper trail.

I am also aware that the students' comments become the primary evidence of my abilities, a paper trail following me throughout my career.

Does she have priors? A paper trail? how about a name?

Because of China's restrictions on overseas investments, most of the Chinese buyers pay cash to minimize the paper trail.

The onus of proving that a company is whiter than white will bring huge time demands and a heavy paper trail with it. 19

We've been following a paper trail on this guy

PAPER TRAIL: A HISTORY OF THE PRINTED WORD