Sentence examples for Modest candidates from inspiring English sources

At baseball's winter meetings in December, Alderson, the Mets' general manager, said, "What outfield?" when asked to talk about the team's very modest candidates to play right, center and left in the 2013 season.

Examples: In all its ruthlessness, truth, for starters, says that Europe, in full comprehension of what it was doing, decided last year to give the posts of president and high representative for foreign affairs created in its new constitution to two earnest but modest candidates who could not lead.

(Pressed to admit his failings, Mr Brown sometimes sounds like a faux-modest candidate in a job interview, who claims his main fault is working too hard).

The difference was less pronounced for Section 3. A modest increase in candidates from non-English speaking backgrounds (22% to 29%) over the last 10 years most likely reflects the impact of immigration [ 19], and increasing numbers of international students seeking admission into Australian graduate entry courses [ 20, 21].

The current state-of-the-art object detectors employ object proposals to detect objects within a modest set of candidate bounding box proposals instead of exhaustively searching across an image using the sliding window approach.

And is this mitochondrial pathway also relevant to sporadic forms of PD Associationn studies in sporadic PD patients, showing modest effects for candidate genes involved in mitochondrial function and oxidative stress, support this contention.

And his stated ambition makes presidential candidates look modest.

State financing of elections has often been discussed as a way of opening up the electoral space to parties and candidates with modest resources.

Recent polls show Mr. Thompson with a modest advantage, and each candidate is hoping that something about Mr. Ryan will rub off on them in the primary.

"It is therefore only right that the party helps collectively to shoulder some of the financial burden of members on more modest incomes during the candidate selection process so that we remain the people's party".

GWAS have proven to be much more successful than linkage studies, which were underpowered to detect variants of modest effect (2), and candidate gene studies, which are non-systematic and biased due to our limited knowledge of the biological pathways implicated in disease pathogenesis (3).