| At the same time, an active hunting lifestyle is gradually being replaced by sedentary habits, including desk-bound employment. |
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| They believe face-to-face contact is what encourages bright ideas at work, but desk-bound staff no longer talk the way they used to. |
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| That's his euphemism for the paunch so characteristic of many middle-aged, desk-bound executives. |
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| I fear I have years of this ahead of me, as I can't see my career moving away from the desk-bound realm any time soon. |
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| Eating them while leading a desk-bound or sofa-dominated life now appears even less useful. |
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| Today he said desk-bound senior ranking officers had also embraced the idea of taking to the streets regularly each month. |
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| But union leaders are angry that instead of recalling staff who are off duty to man the cars, or using desk-bound officers, management are taking firefighters off engines. |
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| Most people think of Pay Corps people as desk-bound number crunchers up to their eyeballs in financial paperwork. |
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| More people than ever are swapping their desk-bound jobs for a vocation that enables them to be hands-on, use their brain and be in charge of their own destiny. |
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| Now, the computer signals a warning to all desk-bound individuals. |
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| This list of office slang may come in handy for all you desk-bound folks. |
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| The increasing burden of legislation, designed by well meaning but desk-bound bureaucrats, ensured that only the very large could survive, unless they found a niche. |
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| But she soon gave up her desk-bound job for a life on the ocean waves. |
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| We, the earthbound, the desk-bound, and the disconsolate, can feel your churning delight. |
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| Hotel staff are never desk-bound and must be accessible and contactable at all times wherever they are in the hotel complex. |
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| But government employees cannot be desk-bound if they are to be fully productive. |
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| With so many options available, even the desk-bound can find a wireless solution. |
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| But the Army medical panel told him that the desk-bound nature of his job as a supply controller meant that he could rely on a further ten years of service. |
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| Joyce was not, however, a desk-bound scientist. |
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| Most of the international articles were accurate, while some of the Ivorian press tried to undermine the report, including by suggesting that the Group was desk-bound in New York and had never visited the field. |
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| For a bunch of desk-bound New Yorkers, it was pretty awesome. |
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| Funnily enough, that is exactly what Britain's desk-bound diplomats need. |
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| Indeed, in spite of a US desire to take on only those operations for which the US military is designed, they are finding themselves sucked ever more into the muddy boots and desk-bound soldiery of nation-building. |
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