Sentence examples for modest desk from inspiring English sources

Two plush armchairs sat at one end and a modest desk equipped with high-speed Internet access was at the other.

"When he came to teach at Charterhouse, he booked us in for a scoreboard job," said Gammell, a 63-year-old with a booming laugh who oversees the Charterhouse operation from a modest desk and chair on the second of two floors inside the scoreboard.

The modest desk in Ishihara's private office holds jars of pens and pencils, a mirror and comb and several Japanese fans, and a clunky word processor that he uses to write his speeches and his weekly column, "Wake Up, Japan!," for the conservative newspaper Sankei… Ishihara's antipathy to Communism has not made him more sympathetic to the United States.

On arrival, they found a notice directing them to the monastery's modest guest wing, where simple rooms were each furnished with a narrow bed, a small desk, a chest of drawers and a crucifix.

Starting with just a modest one-desk office at the Argentine Air Force headquarters, in only a few years he turned CNIE into a multi-center organization with several hundred employees, three operational launch centers across the country and a family of research rockets open to the international scientific community.

It will be sent this Wednesday, so we have to finalize a number of details. 12 37: I keep lunch modest, at my desk.

There are alternative plans on Mr. Clinton's desk for modest, mixed-use development at the site.

But this is a parable, King tells me, and a copy of Swift's A Modest Proposal on his desk hints at the tradition he's working in.

"She was very cheerful and obedient," Soko recalls from behind his desk in a modest office.

On a modest ideas wall above the desk at which he draws are pictures and slogans including a note: "Make a croque monsieur machine".

Holder put his desk in a modest room in the corner of the building, where the place of honor belongs to a portrait of Nicholas deB.