In the early 1980s, even in the states where the Congress party had only a modest hold, like in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was unfailingly granted the honor of a great spectacle.
They say that Sidgwick's non-naturalism was comparatively modest, holding only that there are truths about what people ought or have reason to do that we can know by reflection.
The concert may have been a modest event, held in a small, out-of-the-way space for a devoted audience, but it was important.
Shoulder robing The new pose is modesting: holding your bag in front of you because you're a) hiding a baby bump or b) your skirt keeps riding up.
A modest library held English-language biographies of Eric Clapton and Andre Agassi, and a full set of Danielle Steel.
The prime minister, along with the army, navy, and air-force chiefs, all missed his funeral which was a modest one held in Tamil Nadu in the south, not a grand one in the capital.
It was hardly a level playing field yet, though – in 1904, a modest Games held as part of the World's Fair in St Louis, featured 645 men... and just six women.
I co-founded a successful business – Boing Boing, the widely-read website – that benefits enormously from not having to pay fealty to a distributor in order to reach its readers (by contrast, the old print edition of Boing Boing folded when its main distributor went bankrupt while owing it a modest fortune and holding onto thousands of dollars' worth of printed materials that we never got back).
Nine months after her staggering loss in the special election for Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat, which cost Democrats a filibuster-proof majority and re-energized the Republican Party, Ms. Coakley is pursuing a more modest goal: holding on to her current job as state attorney general.
Earlier this month, there was a modest panel discussion, held in the lobby of Pier 40, called "Westway Revisited".
A modest white bowl holds an exemplary oyster pan roast: three plump, perfect oysters enrobed in cream and vermouth, accompanied by a funky uni crostino.
