Sentence examples for pressure desk from inspiring English sources

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Meanwhile, the reporters themselves would feel the pressure from their desk editors — the editors who do their evaluations — to stay on their own desks.

The idea behind the product was to relieve pressure on service desks by letting customers help each other.

And so committed is Mr. Levchin to seeing Slide.com succeed that he keeps a blood-pressure monitor on his desk.

But he said the firm's ranking as the top loan originator on Wall Street, not to mention the pressures put on the desk by Lehman's growth-obsessed leadership, made it difficult for even the most senior executives to raise questions, even a senior vice president like Mr. Linton.

At the same time, regulatory capital pressures on trading desks limit dealers' ability to supply liquidity.

"The Walworth Farce was the first piece I wrote here, and I really enjoyed the pressure of sitting at my desk in London thinking, 'Right, I'd better arrive on the page here, because this city is huge and it'll gobble you up.' The risk of getting up in the morning and living a life is still something that catches my breath".

"There's a lot of social pressure to sit at your desk all day," says Deborah Quilter, the author of two books on repetitive strain injury.

They are under pressure to meet the trading desk's quick-fire trading needs, and this focus is useless to long-term investors.

Some wildlife managers I've spoken too are worried about exactly such events: they know the problem will land on their desks and the pressure from the top will be intense.

A stethoscope and some tongs and a blood-pressure cuff lay on the doctor's desk.