Sentence examples for Modest post from inspiring English sources

In the revised version, Henry wins a certain respect and contentment in a modest post as a civil servant.

When Verdi wrote this five-minute work in 1838, he was 24 and held the modest post of maestro di musica in Busseto.

Finally one of them got her a modest post in a publicity office, where she was paid $22 a week for cutting newspaper clippings and pasting them into a scrapbook.

Woo Seong-ji, a professor at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, said that he believed Mr. Kim might start his son in a rather modest post to "lessen the shock" and buy time to build his leadership credentials.

Gandhi, back in power, appointed him to the modest post of chairman of the Eighth Finance Commission, and he served there and in the parliament until his death two years later.

Hiroshige's father, Gen'emon Andō, a hereditary retainer of the shōgun, was a fireman, and when he died, Hiroshige kept his modest post, eking out a living until he could relinquish the post to another member of the family and devote himself to art.

After player trading, and last summer there were no major sales but significant investment in Roberto Martínez's squad such as the £28m signing of Romelu Lukaku, Everton ended the financial year with a modest post-tax loss.

Some in his camp still hope for a modest post-convention "bounce" in opinion polls about Mr. Gore's candidacy, but their ultimate goal is to turn the race around in the debates with Mr. Bush.

The Yankees then won the rights to negotiate with Igawa with a more modest posting bid of $26,000,194, the last three digits representing Igawa's strikeout total in his final season in Japan.

According to a baseball official with direct knowledge of the proceedings, the Yankees also submitted a modest posting fee in the final few hours before the 5 p.m. deadline on the chance that no one else made a significant bid.

All are from St Petersburg, and all served in intelligence or counter-intelligence. Mr Sechin is the only one who does not advertise his background.That two of the most influential men, Mr Sechin and Viktor Ivanov, hold only fairly modest posts (each is a deputy head) and seldom appear in public is misleading.