Sentence examples for a first modest from inspiring English sources

The Senate housing package is expected to be a first, modest step by Congress to address the growing onslaught of home foreclosures and wider unrest in the mortgage and housing markets.

The Senate housing package is expected to be a first modest step by Congress to address the onslaught of home foreclosures and wider unrest in the mortgage and housing industries.

Although they emphasize the potential of future therapeutic uses of such compounds, the present data are rather preliminary and can only be seen as a first modest step in this direction (the compound is of low affinity and shows little species-specificity).

In 1965 the first modest-sized N.Y.

Which is why the Malings, an at-first modest-looking housing development by "the UK's leading responsible real estate business", Igloo, is welcome.

Seth Bardelas, a 31-year-old sales executive at Microsoft, shares with a roommate a modest seventh-floor duplex with a deck in NoLIta for $3,800 a month.

A third church, the modest Annunciation Cathedral (1484 89), with its warm beauty, was the work of Pskov architects.

With this in mind perhaps I could put forward a modest proposal, a first hopeful grappling hook across the divide.

Dyer is too modest; with a first printing of 30,000 copies, he has already, by his own standard, bested one of the best-selling novelists of our time.

Hydrogen exchange proceeded as a first order process at a modest rate (k540 = 1.0 h−1 m−2) with an apparent activation energy of 67kJmol−1−1.

Second, a modest response rate (57%) may have introduced selection bias into our sample.