Sentence examples for a modest payment. from inspiring English sources

(He eventually received a modest payment from MGM, and substantial royalty payments).

But with land prices skyrocketing, many farmers are more likely to sell land than take a modest payment to preserve grassland.

Ms. Stewart settled her civil case for a modest payment after spending about five months in prison for her criminal conviction.

In the contrived opening scene, Jo-Lynn and Chick negotiate an unlikely deal that trades a murder for a modest payment and certain sexual favors.

Alongside the withdrawal of benefits for disabled people and working families with children you could introduce a modest payment for kittens and puppies.

When someone opens up their home and offers a sometimes-uncomfortable intimacy in exchange for a modest payment, you tacitly accept all their peccadillos and prejudices – from flying ducks to Toilet Duck.

The banks themselves are holding out for a much more modest payment of $5 billion, and though the momentum has shifted in favor of the banks lately, the uncertainty about how big the inevitable hit will be has further undermined shares.

Universities Scotland, the umbrella body for higher education institutions, said the case for a "fair and modest" payment by Scottish graduates was now unanswerable if current levels of teaching and student numbers were to be maintained.

Even that is a modest down payment on the larger cuts the tax plan calls for.

A basic income is a modest cash payment (in this case, a third of subsistence), paid individually, unconditionally, universally and monthly, guaranteed as a right.

Even the fare increases that have been postponed would have been only a modest down payment on the huge bill to come.