Sentence examples for splendid office from inspiring English sources

Bagehot visited Peter Robinson, first minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), at his splendid office in Stormont, the picturesque home of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

As mayor – ensconced in his splendid office in the historic Palazzo Vecchio, where a fresco of the 16th-century siege of Florence covers the wall behind his desk – Renzi could have permitted himself a bit of breathing space.

The appointment lasts for one year and comes with a $35,000 salary, plus $5,000 for travel and a "splendid office", according to Librarian of Congress James H Billington. "In a society full of rhetorical overstatement and a kind of zigging-in-and-out of all kinds of pontifical disguises, she's got this marvellous, understated depth", Billington said in a recent interview.

Among the perquisites of the Times appointment were a company car and a large and splendid office at the paper's building in Printing House Square, London.

In his splendid Senate office, he conveys earnestness more than passion.

There was digitalgoods.com, which spent enormous sums designing a splendid new office and was gone in less than two years.

Normally these convivialities and so forth would flow honey-like from the rather splendid Guardian offices.

His last major big budget Hollywood affair was the leftfield, visually splendid box-office turkey Scott Pilgrim vs the World, so it is hardly as if there were not warning signs.

The splendid Art Deco post office off the lobby is to reopen in August.

His work here at AEA Investors, where he retains a splendid 26th floor office from his tenure as chairman, is done except for a little consulting.

When the Belfast poet Michael Longley received the Ireland Chair of Poetry, on Thursday night at the lavish and splendid harbour commissioners' office, he seemed particularly pleased to be introduced by the deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness; And McGuinness was more than chuffed to be meeting Longley and Seamus Heaney, who was also there.