Sentence examples for Modest city from inspiring English sources

The reservations echo across Jerusalem, a generally conservative and architecturally modest city whose buildings are clad mostly in beige stone.

Varun Grover, one of India's leading standup comedians, was recently performing in Udaipur, a modest city in the country's north.

Mr. Putin recalled that when he first met Mr. Baker, he himself was a "modest city bureaucrat and Mr. Baker was a big boss".

And even though this was a modest counter-protest in a modest city, it mattered – just as Birmingham had mattered in 1963, and Ferguson had mattered in 2014.

Photograph: Artissima There was so much going on in Turin last week that the modest city felt close to cultural combustion.

Now, somehow, it seems more like a modest city park, not quite large enough to get lost in, the view bounded by the high-rise of September.

Even though the changes we've seen are fairly modest, cities like London have shown that small increases in cycling can build over time".

How much did you intend the novel as an appreciation of small, modest cities, and as a conscious response to the many novels that romanticize escaping such cities for places like New York?

In doing so, they have helped build the economies of coastal states, and they have also ballooned the size of formerly modest cities like Miami and Houston.

When asked by reporters if he thought Steele should resign following revelations about committee officials entertaining guests at a Los Angeles bondage club, he would not answer, but said he was concerned, and felt the RNC should host retreats in more "modest" cities, Chicago Public Radio reports.

WITH the recent rise of glass-clad towers and high-end boîtes, the once-modest city of White Plains seems to be doing its best to impersonate Las Vegas, the land that not a single celebrity chef forgot.