Sentence examples for a modest scheme of from inspiring English sources

After serving briefly as governor-general of the plague-ridden lower Volga region (1879), Loris-Melikov was transferred to the provinces of central Russia, where he recommended to the emperor a modest scheme of administrative and economic reforms, aimed at alleviating the causes of social discontent and, thereby, combating revolutionary terrorism.

Even so it took more than three years for the government to bring to parliament a modest scheme to subsidise untried workers, because of union opposition.

In a story in this week's magazine, Rebecca Mead describes Rosen's initiative as a "modest scheme" that aims to invest in New York's garment factories, with the hope of turning them into innovators in apparel production.

The Fashion Manufacturing Initiative is a more modest scheme, but he hopes that it will yield a similar result.

Even the present, much more modest scheme was only rescued by the Heritage Lottery Fund when one of the first actions of the coalition government was to scrap a promised £10m grant.

This proposal may come across as yet another foreign aid proposal – coming with domestic financing conditions or expectations – but we contend that it has the characteristics of a (modest) international 'equalization' scheme that could serve the collective international interest.

But why? Islamic terrorism poses a modest threat in the scheme of things, and military campaigns are not effective in diminishing it further.

Charles Yuji Horioka, an economist at Osaka University, argues that the Japanese household saving rate rose sharply in the 1960s and 1970s because the country was growing rapidly; there was little consumer credit; the population was young; and there was little pension provision (Japan had only a modest state pension scheme until 1973).None of this applies any more.

When lower output and higher social costs are taken into account, alcohol costs Europe and America hundreds of billions a year, up to 1.5% of GDP by some estimates.The industry has introduced some modest schemes to encourage responsible drinking.

The government's revenue is a modest 15% of GDP, but business lobbyists have stymied even unobjectionable money-raising schemes, such as indexing taxes on cigarettes and alcohol to inflation.

We generated a modest set of functionalized butenyl-iminyls 71a– f from oxime ester and dioxime oxalate precursors (Scheme 14).