Sentence examples for a modest player from inspiring English sources

A: In my opinion, I think a lot of it has to do with being a modest player.

José was a modest player for the even more modest local team at this former fishing village.

When the chip maker Avago Technologies went public in 2009, it seemed like a modest player in the semiconductor industry with a market value of just $3.5 billion.

Rabobank, which began life as an agriculture cooperative in the Netherlands in the late 19th century, has become the largest Dutch lender and a modest player on the stage of world finance.

In many ways, it was just another day in the life of a famously modest player who, over the course of a decade and a half, has put his signature on the ninth inning in a way no other pitcher has.

Today, it is a relatively more modest player in the world.

At key decision points, you have to guide what Alex does and says – is he going to be a modest team player or a cocky upstart?

Sumyk, a modest club player in his youth in Brittany, left for Florida in his 20s and eventually began coaching Meilen Tu, the former tour player from the United States who is now his wife and Azarenka's agent.

This month the club lost the free-agent shortstop Jose Reyes, widely considered its best player, to the Miami Marlins, and its extremely modest player acquisitions in recent weeks suggest the team is not operating like a big-market, marquee team.

However, he maintained, none of the roster moves he has made until now — all of them modest player signings — were influenced by the financial threat confronting the team's owners.

Achronix is a minor player in the relatively modest-size market for F.P.G.A., or field programmable gate array, chips.