Through modest, practical efforts on the ground, UNICEF is encouraging literacy in a conservative setting where girls' education has been lagging for years.
This week's action in Albany is important symbolically and may yield modest practical benefits.
Promoting each of those sounds modest, practical and nonideological - which is precisely the point.
Subsequent decisions that limited the government's power to regulate campaign financing also had modest practical impacts.
Levi was heroic; he was also modest, practical, elusive, coolly passionate, experimental and sometimes limited, refined and sometimes provincial.
Mike: From this angle, I'm getting "modest", "practical" and "snazzy touch" – none of which sounds terribly Gucci.
Though the whole matter of when Independence Day should be celebrated is supposedly of modest practical significance, it carries great symbolism.
The modest practical outcome of "Bottle Rocket" may actually have helped Anderson in making "Rushmore"; he had little reputation to live up to and no sophomore jinx to skirt, and he now had both the resources and the experience to develop the tone of his first film.
