Sentence examples for a modest state from inspiring English sources

Camden Hills, a modest state park overlooking West Penobscot Bay here, would have to do.

His mother, who is severely disabled and survives on a modest state pension, was frightened.

This proposed policy would require a modest state investment for a significant gain in coverage and health.

A modest state championship game between Guarany-SE and Sergipe hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons in April.

He was a modest state trooper who lived at home with his parents and often spent his off-hours teaching neighborhood kids how to play baseball.

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.

Alderson gave a modest state-of-the-team address Monday before the Mets fell to the Reds, 3-2, in 10 innings — discussing Matt Harvey's rehabilitation, Zack Wheeler's shoulder and Terry Collins's status as manager.

In response, in late February California State Senator Kevin De León and Darrell Steinberg, the Senate president pro tempore, introduced legislation that would allow private-sector workers in California to enroll in a modest, state-operated retirement program financed by the workers and their employers — at virtually no cost to taxpayers.

But he quickly agreed to slip into the skin of Col. Massoud Behrani, the penniless Iranian immigrant who, with tragic results, invests the future of his family, his manhood and his very identity in the purchase of a modest, state-auctioned bungalow in "House of Sand and Fog".

The migration service says the quota for foreign work permits in Moscow is now full.And though Mr Shuvalov talks of a more modest state role in the economy, a fierce fight is raging about the assets of a state holding company set up by Sergei Chemezov, a former KGB colleague and close friend of Mr Putin.

Japan has a very modest state drug rehabilitation programme, and it is still not uncommon for parents of addicts to turn over care of their wayward children to a local yakuza boss, who promises to cure them.