Sentence examples for a modest target from inspiring English sources

A total of 130 seemed a modest target but he ensured that it was enough.

When defending such a modest target nothing can be taken for granted.

After his win in Manchester, Ed Miliband set a modest target.

It sets a modest target for urbanisation of 60% in 2020, up from nearly 54% today.

Then in pursuit of a modest target New Zealand contrived to lose seven wickets in a slapdash display of batting.

According to Mr Glover's business plan, it could break even on a circulation of 100,000, a modest target.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R – Wisc). on Thursday suggested President Trump's goal for cutting the corporate tax rate was unworkable, offering a more modest target that he said had a better chance in Congress.

In 2007 the National Audit Office pointed out that the Labour government's funding was £150 million a year short of what was needed to achieve its own target, a very modest target, to maintain 63 per cent of existing flood defences in good order.

In that case, the world's climate problem would remain unsolved.And moreover, if the EU can be persuaded to undertake a second commitment under Kyoto, it is likely to accept a more modest target than it has already offered.

That turned out to be a very modest target.

WASHINGTON — James E. O'Keefe III, the 25-year-old video provocateur whose hidden camera galvanized Congress this week against the advocacy group Acorn, began his filmmaking career with a more modest target: Lucky Charms.