Notice, again, how they decorate their office.

They just sit there with their big feet up on their big desk...

Indian MPs still thump their desks in approbation, rather than applauding by clapping their hands.

Every morning, there are 600 people queuing outside their offices to reclaim these characters.

Roman officials could only be installed in office when the avian omens were auspicious.

I mean, there's a bit, but it's not what gets people up in the morning, what keeps them at their desks.

It would be appreciated if representatives would take a few minutes to fill out the questionnaire now, if possible and to leave it on their desks for collection.

Indian MPs still thump their desks, rather than clap their hands, in approbation.

When we think about learning, we often picture students in a classroom or lecture hall, books open on their desks,

They havenít come in straight from driving a tank, theyíve simply been sitting in front of their computers the whole time.

They're doing it in a very simple way, by calling their mom from work, by IMing from their office to their friends, by texting under the desk.

I can't understand these armchair officers fellows trying to fight from behind a desk, waving papers at the enemy.

In paragraph 347, the Board recommended that UNICEF provide senior managers with statistics regarding the timely submission of documents by their offices and divisions.

The Committee firmly believes that senior managers should spend most of their time at their home duty station managing the day to day functions of their departments or offices.

Prodi's Commission decided to send Commissioners into the field their offices were no longer next to the President's office, but located in the department for which each was responsible.

(b) In consultation with substantive departments, the technical secretaries of the Main Committees should submit proposals to the respective bureaux, for their consideration, on which reports that could be integrated and which resolutions could be biennialized

How are they doing this? They're doing it in a very simple way, by calling their mom from work, by IMing from their office to their friends, by texting under the desk.

Defence counsel have to leave their other case work for considerable periods to spend time working at the ICTR in Arusha, usually away from their practices.

(h) Provision of full range of remote access services for staff working away from the office while on mission, off site employment, or from home

Defence counsel have to leave their other case work for considerable periods to spend time working at the ICTR in Arusha, usually away from their practices.

This hampered the outreach of the programme for six weeks, during which all branch offices were closed because striking employees prevented other staff from entering their offices.

To prepare his report, the Secretary General asks the heads of departments and offices to produce programme performance reports for their departments or offices (rule 105.1 (b) (i)).

I am pleased to report that as a result of the tireless efforts of UNOTIL's civilian advisers, Timorese counterparts have increased their ownership of the functional responsibilities carried out by their offices.

Those offices had also helped to coordinate and facilitate visits by high ranking United Nations officials (concerning the complete withdrawal of foreign military forces, for example) and visiting missions of various United Nations agencies.

192. The Board of Auditors wishes to express its appreciation for the cooperation and assistance extended by the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Under Secretary General for Peace keeping Operations, the Director of the Field Operations Division and their officers and members of their staff.

But the experiment was abandoned within a month people have grown so accustomed to the convenience of copying messages to multiple recipients that walking to their desks is now an unfamiliar idea.

Frequently, German politicians had to leave office on the allegation that they took wrong decisions because of their resistance to inferior experts' opinions (this commonly being called to be beratungsresistent , or resistant to consultation, in German).

Mayer, I think, did not order her employees back to the office merely because some people were not actually working at home rather, many of those who were working were not working together.

Outside Syria, they have been silenced by the overwhelming indifference of the international community, and also by the permanent appeal to all those Western experts who explain Syria from their offices and laptops and who never allow Syrian voices, God forbid, to challenge the unblemished result of their analytical disputes.

Before the creation of the RCUs, it was not unusual for Bonn colleagues to go to the office late in the evening to deal with questions requiring urgent action, so as to be able to communicate with the focal points or other decision makers based in Asia.

A similar rapid reaction capacity, albeit not for security specific functions, has been successfully used by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, which has developed a rapid deployment roster of specialized staff who remain with their offices on a day to day basis but are available for quick deployment during mission start up phases.