Sentence examples for a modest assertion from inspiring English sources
In the health care case, the administration has insisted that the overhaul law is a modest assertion of federal power in comparison to the law Mr. Filburn challenged.
Older people are generally ignored or patronised in the movies: so this film's mighty triumph is a modest assertion of their existence.
Its demise — at the hands of a graduate student from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who discovered flaws in the Harvard economists' methods — left a more modest assertion in its wake: heavily indebted nations grow more slowly.
Instead, I'd make the more modest assertion that its odds of winning a third term are, on first approximation, 50-50.
(I don't think he's being disingenuous in this modest assertion, but I do think he's wrong; his talent as a songwriter is transcendent, whereas that of his book writers is usually only serviceable).
This modest assertion is true, though many of the pair's musings are only a speculative notch or two above those of the late Andy Rooney.
The object of this furor is a preternaturally gentle man who speaks, with a modest lisp, in visionary metaphors and bold assertions.
The report's assertions make common sense: for drug cartels, government seizures are merely a modest line-item in their budgets; the "maximum" - meaning, farcically optimistic - estimate of drug seizures runs to 25% of total supply.
Here's a modest proposal.
A modest little house designed.
