Sentence examples for Modest account from inspiring English sources
Equally chilling is his modest account of his own, um, achievements.
In what started in 1976 as a modest account to advertise upstate New York ski resorts, Ms. Maas, a creative director and account executive, became the agency's liaison with the state.
(He provides a modest account of its origin and development in the present volume; one day he might want to tell that tale in more exciting, less modest detail).
When I met Suschitzky in 2007, when appreciation for his work was gathering pace – largely at the behest, to be honest, of Austrian cultural forces – he was not only in incredibly good shape for a 94-year-old, but offered a highly articulate and modest account of himself.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, July 3, 1943 P. 13 The papers carried only the modest account of the Federal Trade Commission's complaint against Carter's Little Liver Pills; to wit, that they had no therapeutic effect on the liver.
But his wasn't the only story (just about a third of them, in this modest account): LONGEST SLOG The unheard-of 183 preview performances for "Spider-Man" — to accommodate script, staging, cast and special-effects changes — before the show finally opened on June 14.
There were modest accounts in local papers that paved the way for documentation of a broad-based scandal.
Fees for debit cards, account maintenance, below-minimum account fees and overdrafts which rose by 11% between 2000 and 2007 add up, particularly for modest accounts.
The result at the Reagan library is a decidedly modest accounting of the Iran-contra affair, the major scandal that hit the administration, which avoids laying blame on anyone.
Some studies have concluded that trade explains a lot of the skill premium, but most find the effect of trade is rather modest, accounting for perhaps one-fifth of the rise in the premium.
Instead, the regulators produced a compromise, proposing to give energy and agricultural banks that are otherwise solvent and well managed a more modest accounting break by permitting them to renegotiate or restructure a bad loan at a lower interest rate without booking a loss on the unreceived interest payments, provided the initial principal of the loan is repaid.
