Sentence examples for a modest mission from inspiring English sources

MARIJANA CONDIC and Lisa Leipziger, friends in Frankfurt, had a modest mission: to make espadrilles that were sturdier than the Spanish styles they love to wear.

The reverse can be true too, and in MobileCoin's case, a modest mission could be a strong signal for a compelling product a bit further down the blockchain.

I went there on a Saturday night in February with a modest mission to hear some live music.

The Arab League had been allowed to launch a modest observer mission to Syria, and on January 21st I joined a delegation that was visiting Zabadani.

But Curiosity will not be able to provide definitive answers to the question of "Could there have been life on Mars?" And a modest orbiter mission called Maven, to study Mars' upper atmosphere, remains on track for launching next year.

What is certain is that despite its modest mission, the board has become a significant arbiter of land use.

The American players had their own modest mission yesterday.

Then the Murphys wisely dropped the restaurant's prices and came to terms with its modest mission: pleasing but plain Americana.

Perhaps more keenly than other works here, it expresses Mr. Lees's love of nature, whose simple beauty he has made it his modest mission to record.

The new exhibition doesn't abandon the museum's approach, but it is a vast improvement, expanding the slavery theme and pointing the way to a more modest social mission.

In announcing the deployment, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates described the addition of armed Predators as "a modest contribution" to the NATO attack mission.