Sentence examples for a modest move from inspiring English sources
There is a modest move towards means-testing: from 2007, richer old people will have to pay higher premiums for certain doctors' services.
"Why stick with the status quo when we would get so much credit for even a modest move?" A Pentagon spokesman said it would be "premature" to comment before the review was completed.
In a modest move intended to bolster the peace process and the West Bank economy, the Israeli government on Sunday increased by 5,000 the number of permits allocated for Palestinians working inside Israel.
The Trump administration took its first concrete steps to penalize Saudi Arabia on Tuesday by revoking visas for agents implicated in the killing, a modest move considering 18 of the 21 Saudi suspects were already under arrest.
Although it now appears a modest move, and was rejected because of the majority vote of northern members, it pressurised the British into political advance, and shook the north into accepting a faster pace towards independence.
Even the recent decision to provide small arms to the rebels was a modest move: few analysts think that it will be sufficient to alter the course of the civil war.
It's a step many states have provided a workable framework for and a comparatively modest move in the current climate.
DALLAS — While Jose Reyes flitted through the halls of the Hilton Anatole on Wednesday, giving a succession of interviews in a Miami jersey after being introduced as a Marlin, the Mets announced a comparatively modest move of their own.
However, Beijing is unlikely to bow to pressure to substantially revalue its currency, preferring a more modest move in the direction of exchange rate flexibility.
Some people in Congress want to tighten penalties on counterfeiters, a good but modest move.
In other words, the more cooperative attitude in Germany, at any rate, was at least in part a response to the modest move toward multilateralism shown by the Bush administration in seeking the latest Security Council resolution.
