One of the least desired N.F.L. predicaments is a "quarterback controversy" — such a faceoff almost never ends well — and so, as quickly as the Jets traded a pair of modest draft choices to Denver, the team began billing the season as a Mark Sanchez production.
Turned down even for the part-time job of a teacher in a Bombay high school, he returned to Rajkot to make a modest living by drafting petitions for litigants.
Robin Lopez, a modest prospect when Phoenix drafted him 15th in 2008, is now the gritty, hustling center the Suns always lacked.
THE BAR Fully stocked, with a vast selection of tequilas in three ascending categories (platinum, reposado and añejo, ranging in price from $11 to $100 per 2.5-ounce pour); seven types of margarita ($12 to $14); a good selection of beers ($6 a bottle, $9 for a very large draft); and a modest variety of wines ($9 to $15 by the glass, $34 to $58 per bottle).
Full Circle is a congenially bonkers sports-and-beer bar on Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the menu features 60 or so canned beers, 5 on draft, no bottles, a modest liquor selection, free soft pretzels and hot dogs, and nothing else.
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Brian Schatz have drafted the American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act, a modest corporate-friendly carbon tax that's explicitly designed to lure Republican lawmakers across the aisle and has almost entirely failed to do so.
Despite just a 2.8 percent chance, that pick turned into the No. 1 selection in the draft lottery held on May 17, sparking a modest celebration in Cleveland.
Fully stocked, offering a modest selection of wines (glasses start at $5, bottles range from $19 to $59), and 14 draft beers ($5).
Here's a modest proposal.
