Sentence examples for a distinctly modest from inspiring English sources

Yet by the standards of his heyday the crowd was a distinctly modest one.

Far from it: homes start at a distinctly modest $155,000.

More than 100 countries are said now to have their own "human development centres" producing annual reports; Pakistan's is in a distinctly modest building in Islamabad.

For government officials in Huili, a distinctly modest county in a rural corner of south-west China, attracting national media coverage would normally seem a dream come true.

During the next several years, the Helmsleys filed no fewer than six lawsuits against Mimi, asserting that they were entitled to the money in Jay's estate, a distinctly modest sum compared with their own fortune.

For many years, VBS was a distinctly modest entity - a mutual bank, largely owned by its depositors, that helped rural communities, living on land owned by tribal chiefs, to secure mortgages or save for family funerals.

Robert H. Jackson, who served President Franklin D. Roosevelt as attorney general for a year before his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1941, had a distinctly more modest conception of the office.

Recent moves to cut payroll taxes, limit public-sector pay rises, reduce energy costs and improve a woeful transport infrastructure should help to raise this distinctly modest economic speed limit.

Pensions have grown, and are paid on time.All of which sounds distinctly modest.

But Mr Berlusconi's anti-recession measures have been distinctly modest (involving extra net spending of only some €6 billion).

By the standards of his predecessors in the White House during the seven decades since the end of the second world war, Obama's record is distinctly modest.