Sentence examples similar to a modest fault from inspiring English sources
We do not think our interpretation parses [§1252(g)] too finely, post, at 5; but if it did, we would think that modest fault preferable to the exercise of such a novel power of nullification.
He is, to a fault, a modest man.
We offered a modest proposal for 'no-fault climate-disaster insurance': if a large segment of the world thought that the benefits of a proposed climate modification scheme would outweigh the risks, they should be willing to compensate those who subsequently lost their favoured climate.
This problem can be remedied by employing a modest amount of redundant storage to provide fault tolerance.
When I arrived at Clarke's home on a leafy street in Park Slope, Brooklyn for an interview, I found an artist modest to a fault, given to self-deprecation and even self-doubt.
Senator Johnson has a modest proposal of his own, but he has conceded that it may be faulted in various ways, and he has said that he will be pleased to have amendments introduced — even total substitutes.
It's a modest improvement but one that may build on itself since, for all its faults, IQ is a reliable predictor of a child's performance in school.
But she faulted them for "not integrating," the evidence of which she said could be found in their traditional dress and attendance at a modest, storefront mosque.
Some earn a modest pension.
He has a modest ambition".
