Sentence examples for a modest gesture of from inspiring English sources

The accelerated vote, to be followed within 90 days by parliamentary elections, appeared to be a modest gesture of government flexibility after nearly a year of the most sustained crackdown in the revolts of the Arab Spring.

Remembrance candles glowed at the site of the attack Monday evening, a modest gesture for two victims who died as differently as they lived.

It's a modest gesture alongside the pain and calamity that climate change is already wreaking.

One further thought about the House Republicans and health care: In addition to being symptomatic of the Republican Party's larger policy problems, last week's defeat of a very modest gesture at something resembling a conservative approach to health care reform was illustrative of the particular problem of trying to rebuild the party's agenda from within the House of Representatives.

During the last one, she holds out her arms in a sweet, modest gesture that seems to say a lot about the kind of star she has become.

Like so much else in his "Ring," conducted by Kent Nagano at the Bavarian State Opera here, it is a simple, modest gesture.

Her bare torso covered with a red blouse, the subject of "Modest Gesture" looks more like a deer frozen by oncoming headlights than a sexual being.

Coming after nearly a decade of cold war hostilities, the modest gesture ushered in an extraordinary new relationship.

Here's the thing: By making a modest goodwill gesture to a former customer, the company could have reaped enormous PR and word-of-mouth benefits.

Ba! Ski! Ba!"—a gesture of welcome.

At least in this transitional phase he still uses the occasional ending gesture, which gives a modest sense of phrasing.