Sentence examples for Modest accomplishments from inspiring English sources

Modest accomplishments earn bubbly praise.

Modest accomplishments, sure, but they are feats that seemed beyond the Nets' reach as they stumbled through the first two months of the season.

New intelligence, he said, had made Tehran's more modest accomplishments the more pressing threat.

This is not the time to allow them to rebuild their reputation with a series of modest accomplishments.

Whom would you admire more – a politician with many accomplishments who resigned in disgrace for unethical behavior, or one with more modest accomplishments but absolute integrity?

Those modest accomplishments reflect the contradictory mix of resilience and fragility that characterizes life in the rebel-held countryside around Tilalyan, a swath of farmland stretching as far as 40 miles from the Turkish border in northeastern Syria.

(In 1970 Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times that the troupe's standards never drop below "at least modest accomplishment").

(Dargis) 'THEN SHE FOUND ME' (R, 1 40) This serious comedy about pregnancy and adoption is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment.

(Scott) 'THEN SHE FOUND ME' (R, 1 40) This serious comedy about pregnancy and adoption is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment.

"Then She Found Me," a serious comedy, is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment.

It's a modest accomplishment, and the devil may yet be in the details, but it's clearly a positive signal that Japan's political and business elites can work together more effectively.