Sentence examples for chief porter from inspiring English sources

There was the sirdar, or chief porter, our cook and his assistant, and then the troop of basic carriers and luggers.

Her marriage to Jean turns into an oddball triangle of sorts when she befriends the barge's chief porter, a tattooed curmudgeon called Pere Jules Michel Simonn, who played the title character in Jean Renoir's classic comedy "Boudu Saved From Drowning" and appeared as an inquisitor in Carl Theodor Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc").

"We think it is appropriate that we should ask all players playing in England to participate in the training," said players' chief Porter.

He also says he introduced the prince to senior intel officials in the U.S. like former CIA chief Porter Goss and FBI Director Robert Mueller.

For Net-A-Porter chief executive Mark Sebba this is the busiest time of the year.

His rise from porter to chief executive is not a fairy tale come true but rather a frequent path to an auction house's executive suites.

Sales for Net-a-Porter's chief competitor, Yoox.com, which is based in Italy, are also increasing rapidly, but the site has recently added a new dimension: creating e-commerce sites for designers who want to sell directly to consumers.

It's rumoured that Natalie Massenet, the visionary founder of online designer boutique Net-A-Porter (who resigned from the business last week with a €100m payoff) was close to hiring former Apple Europe boss Pascal Cagni as Net-A-Porter's chief executive when parent company Richemont announced the merger of her venture with Italian e-commerce giant Yoox.

Net-A-Porter's chief executive Mark Sebba has gone as far as to say that the company is in fact not a retailer, but a media company.

So when Lucy Yeomans, editor-in-chief of Net-a-Porter's glossy publication, Porter magazine, says – as she did over the phone this week – "Plastic is not cool" then plastic should be afraid.

And for sure, many mature women these days, including Michelle Obama, Madonna and Net-a-Porter's own chief executive, Natalie Massenet, have well-toned arms that they are comfortable showing off.