Sentence examples for a modest initial from inspiring English sources

Not a bad return on a modest initial investment.

Harold Harris, of Hutchinson, agreed to a modest initial print run of 8,000 copies.

Instead, they settled on a modest initial force, combined with precision bombing, that would be a "rolling start," paving the way for greater forces if needed.

Among the legions of the surprised are the executives at her publishing house, Profile Books, who ordered a modest initial printing of 15,000 books, but now have 510,000 in print; and Ms. Truss's friends and family.

Web start-ups in places like the United States, Japan and China have a big advantage, he said, because their huge domestic markets allow a modest initial investment to reap quick profits that can be reinvested in the business or in expansion.

During the first campaign for the Panthéon, where the remains of towering French figures like Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas are interred in the Latin Quarter, officials deliberately set a modest initial fund-raising goal of $6,500 to avoid intimidating donors.

CHENGDU, China — It was, at first glance, a rather modest initial public offering by a small Chinese company seeking to expand production of the key ingredient used in traditional remedies said to shrink gallstones, reduce fevers and sooth the aftereffects of excessive drinking.

Saudi Arabia has confirmed that it intends to join the sovereign-wealth fund (SWF) club, albeit with a relatively modest initial investment.

The company entered the casual-games business in 2001, with "a very modest initial investment," the firm's chairman and chief executive, Rob Glaser said, calling it "an incredible entrepreneurial success story".

Cista's candidates will campaign for a royal commission to review the UK's drug laws relating to cannabis – a relatively modest initial aim calibrated to maximise its appeal.

Now, for a surprisingly modest initial cost of $56,000, which will be offset by future energy savings, the village is about to put up new lights along the one-mile length of Main Street and, eventually, elsewhere.