Sentence examples for a modest offer from inspiring English sources

He was tipped off about it by a friend in France and 'made a modest offer'.

INSIDE PITCH The Mets inquired into GREG MADDUX's interest in playing for them this season, but they have decided against making even a modest offer because he is seeking too much money for their tastes.

So for example, if Steinberg had had another offer in his back pocket -- a modest offer of, say, $150,000 -- that weak alternative offer would have anchored his mind and the entire negotiation at a low level from the start.

He learned yesterday that he is still the Mets' interim shortstop, after Barry Larkin artfully finagled the Mets' modest offer into a three-year extension by the Reds.

Or he may simply have enough leverage to persuade the tenant to accept a modest buyout offer.

She sucked the spoon and read on: What we have been able to say below about waiting, anxiety, memory is no more than a modest supplement offered to the reader to be made free with, to be added to, subtracted from, and passed on to others: around the figure, the players pass the handkerchief which sometimes, by a final parenthesis, is held a second longer before handing it on.

But the retailer has gone far beyond such modest offers.

Other authorities have retreated from their own modest offers.

This is not, I think, an insoluble problem, and as it happens, I have a modest contribution to offer.

Given the credit crunch, a modest all-cash offer in hand can be worth two generous ones in the bush.

A modest wine list offers familiar varietals, at good prices.