Sentence examples for a modest school from inspiring English sources

Lord Jenkins, the chancellor of Oxford University, went to a modest school in Wales.

Bossemptele, with its mission compound — a pretty little church, a modest school, and a rudimentary hospital — seemed like a peaceful place.

The potential for a modest school to survive a powerful earthquake is perhaps nowhere better illustrated than in Balakot, Pakistan, one of hundreds of communities near the border with India shattered by a devastating tectonic jolt on Oct. 8, 2005.

This sort of meeting felt like home, in the neighborhood where I had grown up in a cheerful culture of endless protest at a time when N.Y.U. was not yet one of the biggest and most ambitious private universities in the country but still a modest school proudly catering to working New Yorkers like my mother and Ruth.

Mr. Vallas was hired in late 2011 to much fanfare: a nationally known advocate of change in education, with stints in Philadelphia, Chicago and New Orleans on his résumé, coming to the aid of a modest school district mired in budget cuts.

He is illiterate, but he is now paying for his children to attend a modest private school in their village.

And in a modest, middle school gym in small-town New Hampshire, they finally let him bare his teeth.

We drove over to the White Oak Civil War Museum, a modest old school building filled with installations and artifacts that amazed even the most-well-traveled buffs among us.

The series opens on an ersatz suburbia — a network of burgundy buildings that resembles the campus of a modest boarding school.

A Scout's Evolution Some 70 years ago, Garfinkel, the son of a Manhattan garment worker, was a modest high school basketball player at the now defunct Barnard School for Boys in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.

They used to have his actual desk, which is quite a modest little school desk really, but they also had what was purported to be Captain Cook's desk, which had no real reason to be in Ditchling at all.