Sentence examples for a modest hurdle from inspiring English sources

LONDON — For the man who worked at the Ministry of Silly Walks, travel chaos across the Continent was only a modest hurdle.

The effort to roll back Iran's nuclear weapons program in exchange for the elimination of some sanctions faced a much more modest hurdle.

Nor did Mr. Buchanan make it sound as if jumping even that modest hurdle would have a huge bearing on his own future.

A quarter was at a $10 premium, though that was a modest performance hurdle.

But it also illustrated the political hurdles to achieving even a modest arms control treaty.

England's target of 228 was a modest one by modern standards but there were hurdles to overcome.

It's a pity that this counsel of despair may succeed in ensuring that a modest, yet much toiled-over attempt at improving a poor environment falls at the first hurdle.

Michael Korda's "With Wings Like Eagles," his new volume on the Battle of Britain, clears this hurdle in a modest way, by stepping back from the minutiae of the clash between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe in 1940 to focus on the truly critical events that determined the outcome.

Take a modest proposal.

Here's a modest proposal.

It had a modest impact.