Sentence examples for modest premises from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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).

AJ Inaki Aizpitarte, the self-taught Serge Gainsbourg-like figurehead of the Parisian bistronomic movement (talented young cooks rebelling against Michelin by serving ambitious food in modest premises) is going to be spending a lot of time on the Eurostar this year.

From his modest premises near the confluence of two trout streams, the Lambourn and the Kennet, Mr. Barder, 35, is tapping a market built partly on nostalgia for handmade products and partly on the cachet of a rod that anglers associate with the languorous chalk streams of southern England.

The key to Sonic Youth's appeal has always been the way its guitars sound, and "Murray Street" is built on this modest premise.

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.

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).

In effect, it suggests that that line does not depend on a metaphysical ban on psychological laws, but only on the modest premise that according to the Cartesian's concept of knowledge such laws cannot justify claims about the temporal order of the self.

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.

However, one might instead appeal to the much more modest premise that if an agent judges that some possible action of hers is morally required then she will be motivated to perform that action unless she is practically irrational.