Sentence examples for a modest dent in from inspiring English sources

Nothing Mr. Obama has done will put more than a modest dent in American inequality.

After all, the new bill will, at best, make a modest dent in the rate of foreclosures.

The $616 million would put only a modest dent in Mr. Cohen's net worth, which is said to be nearly $10 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Reasonable estimates suggest that the Fed's new policy is unlikely to reduce interest rates enough to make more than a modest dent in unemployment.

But if the technology catches on and is used in millions of vehicles, it could make a modest dent in fuel demand.

In his own budget speech, India's finance minister, Jaswant Singh, proposed a modest dent in the subsidies poured into both food and agriculture by announcing an increase in the price of fertiliser.

But because western governments can have only a hazy sense of their adversary's dimensions, as James Woolsey, a former head of the CIA, says, it is hard to tell if that represents "a huge dent, a modest dent, or something in between".

The ball hit him in the helmet, left only a modest dent, and Pettit stayed in the game.

$2.5 trillion is a big number … but it's only slightly more than the combined deficit reduction promised by last year's debt-ceiling deal and this month's tax increases combined — and that combination, of course, has only put a very modest dent in our long-term deficit problem.

Even a small dent in that is a big deal.

Three thousand defendants is just a small dent in 45,500.