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"desk work" Definitions
  1. work usually performed at a desk
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54 Sentences With "desk work"

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Roughly 37 percent was devoted to EHRs and desk work.
After being diagnosed with PTSD, Delgado was assigned to desk work.
Lab shifts are a nice break from my usual day-to-day desk work.
Police officer Asger Holm (Cedergren) has been demoted to desk work after some initially unexplained incident.
It "freed" men up from doing boring desk work and allowed them to be shipped out.
The research books piled on one side of my desk, work-avoidance books on the other.
She was relegated to desk work after Evie (a character who wasn't introduced) died in her squad car.
Some jobs, of course, require lots of travel or away-from-desk work as part of the role.
Several other NYPD officers have either retired or been placed on desk work since the corruption probe began earlier this year.
Even the "physical capability" aspect could be waived, allowing for desk work or other participation for those not capable of field combat.
She emphasizes that HelloVote has done all the desk work in what voters need to know and streamlines what they need to do in order to register.
Overall, the physicians spent 27 percent of their time interacting directly with patients and 49 percent of their time on EHRs and desk work, the study found.
When he was 18, Rickert had joined the US Army, but he never got the chance to deploy and mostly did desk work on bases in Georgia and Virginia.
Bring a set of nonplastic utensils from home to keep at your desk/work space instead of grabbing the plastic utensils either at work or in a takeout restaurant.
The officers won't be assigned field duties and will be on desk work pending the outcome of an investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the police department said.
Studies have shown that doctors today spend about a quarter of their time on the patient visit, with nearly half on desk work and charting in the electronic health record.
The real key to reaping the productivity benefits of a standing desk work could be to figure out what tasks you do best sitting and standing and then to toggle between them.
It's awkward to get the iPad in and out of the case, and I really don't think you'd want to use the iPad in this case in any other situation than desk work.
A lot of what we do in life — from desk work to washing dishes to driving — uses more of the muscles on the front of the body, letting the back-body muscles weaken.
To the right of the entrance is a formal dining room, followed by a kitchen designed with raised-panel white cabinets, glittering Brazilian quartzite countertops and extensive built-ins for storage and desk work.
If he remained with the police force, continuing his desk work, for just six more months, Delgado would receive 64% of his salary for the rest of his life, as reported by The Orlando Sentinel.
The program, which provides "on-the-desk" work experience in one of Goldman's divisions in New York, New Jersey and Salt Lake City, is designed to lead to a full-time job at the firm.
Those jobs likely will be white-collar desk work, and not the kinds of warehouse product fulfillment jobs where several Amazon employees have died or suffered long-term injury after the company failed to meet safety standards.
Desk work is now ubiquitous, and the modern world provides other trappings as well, including long commutes in a vehicle, and binge-watching TV. To date, studies have linked sedentary behavior—defined as any waking activity done while sitting or reclined—to organ damage, muscle degeneration, back pain, and many other conditions.
"White-collar" employees may perform "blue-collar" tasks (or vice versa). An example would be a restaurant manager who may wear more formal clothing yet still assist with cooking food or taking customers' orders or a construction worker who also performs desk work.
They told her they would take her there. What she did not realize was that the headquarters was in the same building. Her role within SD-6 was desk work, at first, but she advanced quickly. Within the first year, she was assigned to reconnaissance missions.
She is released with a smug smile. The Murder Squad Superintendent has learned that Rob is actually Adam Ryan and transfers him to menial desk work in the General Unit. He never returns to the Murder Squad. Cassie starts dating another member of the squad and eventually becomes engaged.
The State Railway Administration mainly supervised the desk work done before the construction (for example, making the inventory of material required for the construction and operation, regulations and cost estimates), though their decisions were subject to approval by many others (including the Ministry of Railways, the Army, the Ministry of Public Works and later the State Railway Company).
Redfield Proctor, then secretary of War in Harrison's administration, and with his family removed to the Capitol city. He served the government acceptably exactly fourteen years when he resigned his position partly on account of impaired health and partly from a wish to accept another position under Senator Redfield Proctor which offered him outside exercise and air of which so much desk work deprived him. His desk work, however, had been constantly alleviated by long trips to inspect buildings under construction at army posts and reservations in all parts of the United States, thus he became known to a wide circle of friends in every walk of life. His resignation took effect June 1, 1905 and he became one of the incorporators of "The Talpin Construction Co.", in Washington and began the erection of its first building a large marble apartment house Champlain Apartment Building on K street in that city.
He uses his new false identity as Frank Peterson to persuade the police to let him go. As a result of the arrest and subsequent misunderstanding, Gus is put on desk work and removed from the field. Meanwhile, Malvo begins taunting Stavros psychologically, which included killing his dog and replacing his medication with adderall. He also rigs his shower to spray blood instead of water, and releases hundreds of crickets into Stavros' supermarket.
Released in the same year as "Standing...", this LP of B-sides and rarities was adored by fans of the first album in that it was also constructed primarily from samples. The album cover shows an early desk work station which was used by the artist for late night writing sessions. This record is also where he first exposes his voice on such tracks as "Right Next to You" and "Blue Skies".
Zahedi started his career in the early 1950s working for the Pakistan Observer. By the early 1960s he held the position of assistant editor. He was also a Colombo Plan journalism scholar in Australia in 1955 and worked with the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Gazette. On 7 October 1958, he was arrested late at night near Purana Paltan, Dhaka, his then place of residence, while returning home after finishing some routine desk work.
Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez are spies who have two children, Carmen and Juni, unaware of their parents' career. The couple works for the Organization of Super Spies (OSS) doing desk work but are suddenly called back to active field work to find missing agents. Gregorio suspects children's television host Fegan Floop has kidnapped the agents and mutated them into his "Fooglies" – creatures on his show. The children are left in the care of their uncle, Felix.
He also penned Apache novels, which he has continued to write into his 90s. Determined to write, Grove earned his B.A. degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma, class of 1937, where he was a sports editor of the student daily newspaper during his senior year. He later served as sports editor for two dailies before drifting into general news and desk work. "It was during the Depression and you felt lucky to have a job," he said.
Verret was involved in the G.I. Voice newsletter supporting soldiers taking a class war position against the US state. The US Army reacted to Verret's politics by making him serve unusually long training, and through placing him in desk work in Vietnam. In 1976 Verret moved to London and played a role in the founding of the Spartacist League/Britain in 1978. In 1979 Verret was elected a member of the International Executive Committee of the now International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist).
Day also described her: > When Judy is in the city working at St. Joseph's House, she keeps her nose > buried in desk work. She sits there answering the mail, answering papers, > and filing orders for books and pamphlets–and carrying on the most heated > discussions on anything from religion with any of the college crowd who > happen to drop in. In 1975, she moved to Jaffrey, New Hampshire, studied permaculture with originator Bill Mollison, and co-founded Gap Mountain Permaculture Center and the Gap Mountain Land Trust.
Acland was sent to desk work in the Ministry of Defence, responsible for the annual review of the number of major-generals' posts in the British Army. In 1976, he was finally promoted to brigadier and became commander of the land forces in Cyprus. Two years later, he obtained command of the South West District as a major-general. With the end of the Rhodesian Bush War and the establishment of the Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, Acland was selected commander of the Commonwealth Monitoring Force.
While on an undercover infiltration mission, Denver police detective Christian Box played by William Baldwin has to use some drugs, and is believed by many to have become an addict; it goes wrong, and his wife, also on the operation, is killed and Christian Box gets blamed. Thanks to Lieutenant Blake played by Lee Majors, Box is not officially charged, but instead is demoted to desk work. Two years later he grabs a unique opportunity to mount a new, Box goes on a personal mission to destroy his wife's killer.
Sir George, for instance, > he reflected, would be a very difficult man to fool. His had been a lifetime > of committees and desk work, a lifetime of watching the wheels go round, and > occasionally making them turn.... Another brandy, thought Mr. Calder, and he > might become thunderingly indiscreet. Or would he? There was an inner wall > of cold reserve in those gray eyes.... The four men order drinks from Barlow and chat until two in the morning, although Calder has, through apparently inconsequential dialog, had a sudden epiphany.
After getting out of the hospital, his gun and badge are taken away and he is forced to do desk work. Guidice's posts on his website and the fact that Alex collapsed due to drugs finally lead to Ava being taken away from the Cross family by foster care. Guidice is revealed to have a daughter named Emma Lee who is watched by his mother living at home. One day Ron comes home with a baby girl, claiming that "some slut" he hooked up with long ago gave birth and left the child in his car.
He was born in Dublin on 3 April 1793 the son of William Lardner, a solicitor in Dublin, who wished his son to follow the same calling. After some years of uncongenial desk work, Lardner entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1812, and obtained a B.A. in 1817 and an M.A. in 1819, winning many prizes. He married Cecilia Flood on 19 December 1815, but they separated in 1820 and were divorced in 1835. About the time of the separation, he began a relationship with a married woman, Anne Maria Darley Boursiquot, the wife of a Dublin wine merchant.
As his church's senior missionary in Ethiopia, McClure was requested to become the administrative head of the American Mission representing and facilitating all its activities in Ethiopia. Exchanging field service for desk work, McClure dealt with the various ministries of the government, cultivated relations between various political and ecclesiastical factions, and tried to continue the expansion on the Gilo River, which was only a day's walk from the Sudan border and had become extremely dangerous because of the civil war in South Sudan. Because of his work with the United Nations Committee of Refugee Relief, McClure was classified as an enemy of the Sudanese nation.Partee (1990), p. 351.
Beaglehole became known internationally for his work on Cook's journals which brought out his great gifts as historian and editor. It was not all desk work among the archives – he also travelled widely in Cook's wake, from Whitby to Tahiti, to Tonga and to the New Hebrides. The four volumes of the journals that emerged between 1955 and 1967 were subsidised by the New Zealand government which also set up a special research post for their author. The sheer size of these tomes, each of them approaching 1,000 pages, may seem disconcerting at first sight, but they are enlivened by Beaglehole's stylish and often witty introductions, intended to set the journals in their contexts.
Although Mosby hated the desk work, he twice returned to Washington, D.C. to argue before the United States Supreme Court—once based on the consul fees he had remitted to the Treasury (and which the claims court found him entitled to) and once for the railroad. Mosby also wrote articles for Eastern newspapers about his escapades during the Civil War, and traveled to New England on a speaking tour where he met Oliver Wendell Holmes (both father and son).Siepel pp. 245–248 He also befriended the Patton family and spent time at their ranch with their young son, George S. Patton, recreating Civil War battles, with Mosby playing himself and George playing Robert E. Lee.
The Company recognized the benefits of centralized administration, and required that all workers sign in and out at the central office, daily. As the Industrial Revolution intensified in the 18th and 19th centuries, the industries of banking, rail, insurance, retail, petroleum, and telegraphy dramatically grew in size and complexity. To transact business, an increasing large number of clerks were needed to handle order-processing, accounting, and document filing, with increasingly specialized office space required to house these activities. Most of the desks of the era were top heavy with paper storage bins extending above the desk-work area, giving the appearance of a cubicle and offering the workers some degree of privacy.
On 3 March 1910 Troy Middleton enlisted into the 29th Infantry Regiment at Fort Porter in Buffalo, New York. He was put to work as a company clerk, and as a private earned $15 a month, which was paid in gold until it became scarce, and was then paid in silver.Price, 34 Private Middleton tired of this desk work quickly and asked to become a soldier. While this did not happen at Fort Porter, his talents as a football player became known, and he was pressed into duty as the quarterback of the local team, which played civilian teams in the Buffalo area as well as other army teams such as the one at Fort Niagara near Niagara Falls.
In The Terrorists, he is however forced to become Chief of Operations in an important job protecting an American senator, meaning that he is for once, in theory, higher in position than his superior, Malm. He is allowed to assemble his perfect team, consisting of himself, Larsson, Rönn, Skacke and Melander. He does extremely well coordinating the desk work and keeping in communication (through allowing Melander to handle all telephone communications, and diverting all telephone calls, or even switching off the telephone altogether whenever he needs time to think), impressing the Commissioner. In The Abominable Man he is shot and severely wounded, and quits smoking after the incident as his favourite manufacturer discontinues his preferred type of cigarette.
He was under a great deal of pressure to produce results, since any failures in the task force could have led to his being permanently placed on desk work. Despite it, he always stood for his team. In the episode "There Are Rules" when U.S. Marshals Chief Director Richard Wendell wanted Ray off the team claiming he is a dirty cop, Charlie put his own career on the line to retain Ray and keep the team together. Also in the season two premiere episode "An Unjust Death" when Chief Inspector Craig Renner offered him a promotion, he turned it down for the team, but unfortunately Charlie was killed in action by fugitive Damian Fontleroy in the same episode.
Lt. Cunningham is an African-American soldier and FOX's resident interrogation specialist that goes by the codename Boa. After losing his leg due to unspecified reasons and getting demoted to desk work by the CIA, the Department of Defense taps him to besmirch the CIA's reputation, a job he accepted due to desiring revenge for his demotion. This enables him to join Gene's revolt and later to interrogate Naked Snake about the Philosophers' Legacy. Snake defeats him upon learning of the DOD's plans, with his flying platform exploding shortly thereafter, although not before he attempts to destroy the base with a Davy Crockett round in an attempt to ensure Snake died with him.
Eric appeared in Saw II as the father of Daniel Matthews, and as an ex-detective doing desk work. He was called to the scene of one of the Jigsaw Killer's recently discovered games, where Eric was asked by his ex-partner, Detective Allison Kerry, to identify the victim, who turned out to be Michael, a police informant used by Eric. While leaving the scene, Kerry pointed out a message written on the ceiling, which stated, "LOOK CLOSER DETECTIVE MATTHEWS." Annoyed with Kerry for bringing him to the scene to be goaded into the investigation by the message, Eric announced that he had enough work to do, while having to deal with his wife's divorce lawyers.
An example is the West Yorkshire Police, which has allowed the increase in the presence of police officers along the streets and a reduction in public spending, given that each officer could perform desk work directly via the mobile device, as well as in several other areas and situations. The US Federal Government has been slow to move away from the Blackberry platform, a State Department spokesperson saying in 2013 that Blackberry devices were still the only mobile devices approved for U.S. missions abroad by the State Department. The high encryption standard that made BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook tablet unique, have since been implemented in other devices, including most Apple devices released after the iPhone 4. The Bangalore City Police is one of the few police departments in India along with the Pune Police and Kochi Police to use BlackBerry devices.
Gösta Ekman, who played Martin Beck in the 1993/1994 film series of 6 books. ;Martin Beck: The protagonist of the series, throughout the novels, Martin Beck goes from being an unhappily married man and father of two young teenagers, to a divorced man in a happy unmarried relationship with Rhea Nielsen, a kind and emphatic landlady whom Beck meets while investigating the death of a man who was Nielsen's tenant. Beck is prone to colds and often suffers from ailments and physical discomforts. Beck also gets several promotions, from Detective to Inspector, and Chief of the National Murder Squad by the end of the series, seemingly much to the chagrin of everyone involved, including himself as he hates the vision of being confined to desk work, though in Cop Killer, he is thankfully spared a promotion to a Commissioner.
To make the process random, one of Bevin's secretaries each week, from 14 December 1943, pulled a digit from a hat containing all ten digits, 0–9, and all men liable for call-up that week whose National Service registration number ended in that digit were directed to work in the mines, with the exception of any selected for highly skilled war work such as flying planes and in submarines, and men found physically unfit for mining. Conscripted miners came from many different trades and professions, from desk work to heavy manual labour, and included some who might otherwise have become commissioned officers. An appeals process was set up, to allow conscripts the opportunity to challenge the decision to send them to the pits, although decisions were rarely overturned. Those who refused to serve in the mines were imprisoned.
After retiring, he remained in the Japan Sumo Association as an elder, first under his old shikona for two years (the jun- toshiyori system) and then as Nishiiwa (borrowed from Wakanosato), and worked as a coach at his stable. After leaving in May 2007 due to the retiring Takanotsuru needing the Nishiiwa stock, he served as a director of the Professional Baseball Masters League upon the recommendation of former Hiroshima Toyo Carp pitcher Sohachi Aniya (安仁屋宗八), who was also a senior at Okinawa High School. However, he was unaccustomed to desk work and the lack of exercise worsened the symptoms of his diabetes. He received a kidney transplant in 2006 from his mother, who was 64 years old at that time, and after that, he was able to resume the practice of judo, which he had not done since high school.

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