Sentence examples for desmond from inspiring English sources

As I reported in the London Evening Standard last week, the prime minister spoke recently at a fund-raising dinner for Norwood, a leading Jewish charity of which Desmond is the president.

And, according to one of the guests, David Cameron laid it on thick by praising Desmond to the heavens as "the creator of large businesses and provider of thousands of jobs".

The NUJ believes Desmond is wilfully running his newspapers into the ground and its attack on the press magnate comes three months after it called him "Britain's greediest billionaire".

Farage said he was widening attention from about a dozen to an ambitious 22 target seats, aided by the Desmond money to buy extra billboards, poster trucks and mailshots.

In fact, Desmond was attending a meeting of a parliamentary group, the Conservative Friends of Israel.

Or could it be, as some suggest, a liaison that will enable Desmond to obtain a desired peerage?

However, whether or not a Desmond-Cameron meeting took place, he did score some hits along the way.

The police's recent involvement in the case followed intense pressure for action – including from the head of the Law Society, Desmond Hudson, who said Wonga's "dishonest activity" could amount to blackmail and deception.

Sir Desmond Fennell's report into the earlier tragedy, which killed 31 people, highlighted serious concerns about communications on the tube.

"We had our Madiba [Mandela's clan name], we had the bishop [Desmond Tutu], we had the spirit of our people, we had the world.

The youngest daughter of Nobel prize laureate and retired archbishop Desmond Tutu returned home to find her housekeeper stabbed to death in her daughter's bedroom, her hands and feet bound with cloth.