Cowell (N)'s staff of 15 work out of a modest premises in Maida Vale, and the boss is easily identifiable by his close-cropped black hair and familiar, matter-of-fact vocal delivery – though he appears to wear his trousers at a more conventional height than Cowell (S).
Even though their website is not official – another, IKhwanweb, claims to be the only official English site and is also based in London – this is not the first time the modest premises of World Media Services have attracted attention.
The year after McLennan became general secretary, the CPGB sold its biggest asset, its substantial headquarters in King Street, Covent Garden, bought in the 1920s with money secretly sent by Lenin, and moved into more modest premises.
Lacking the excesses or themes that were often criticized in his other works, it offered only the modest premise of Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo as low-level New Jersey hoods who botch a job, earning the ire of the boss (Harvey Keitel).
Starting from the modest premise of documenting several months of Pina Bausch's performances and rehearsals in the summer of 1983, the director Chantal Akerman realized one of the greatest of all syntheses of dance and cinema.
On this interpretation, the main premise of the argument is not that the relevant questions are conceptually open, but the much more modest premise that they at least seem conceptually open to competent users of moral terms.
In contrast, liberal commentator Jonathan Chait opined in New York that "What passes for a right-wing movie these days is The Dark Knight Rises, which submits the rather modest premise that, irritating though the rich may be, actually killing them and taking all their stuff might be excessive".
They measured success in modest exchanges.
We are in modest-paying teaching jobs.
The school was founded 11 years ago by Emilio Battz, a local pastor, and his wife, Ester, who live in a modest home on the premises with their three children.
