"They were all modest purchases, not top of the range anything..
Ruler on Ice was a modest $100,000 purchase, and the Halls bred Pants on Fire.
They have boarded a yellow school bus in Louisville and again in Baltimore to watch their modest purchase run off with the first two legs of the Triple Crown.
Apart from us, only the token-seller witnessed her gesture He betrayed no emotion, & we, unnerved rather than comforted, made our habitual modest purchase, investing in the trip home with no thought for the morrow.
What makes this new "Freedom to Dissent" pledge so repugnant is that it essentially justifies homophobia by implicitly conceding that it deserves, as conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat puts it, "some modest purchase in civil society".
On the eve of the N.F.L. season, inside a modest, newly purchased home in East Boulder, Colo., the former Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer mounted a photograph of himself breaking free for a touchdown for Arizona State in the Rose Bowl on Jan . 1 , 1997
A steady stream of such modest purchases has provided the hospital with almost $2 million.
But such an action would provoke howls from Germany and countries like Finland, where the bank is seen as having gone rogue because of its relatively modest purchases of debt from a list of countries that also includes Spain, Portugal and Ireland.
She is carrying a tiny baby, while her four-year-old daughter helps with the modest purchases she has managed to make.
