Sentence examples for a modest town in from inspiring English sources
From Milan to London, European football continues to attract investors from across the globe keen to tap into the glamor of the "beautiful game". But one Chinese-American entrepreneur has chosen a modest town in Yorkshire, England for his assault on the sport -- and there's even a Hollywood connection.
Like many teenagers from El Kef, a modest town in the north west of Tunisia, their son Seddik spent mornings in school before heading to the neighborhood mosque to study the Qur'an.
Eu's parents ran a hand-wash laundry in Oakdale, a modest town in the San Joaquin Valley where — at the time — a girl of Chinese descent might well have thought twice about dreaming too big.
Amos Oz is a rare man: an internationally acclaimed author who lives in a modest house in a modest town, deep in the Negev desert.
Yet it is here, in a modest town of 70,000 people tucked away in the rural backwaters of America, that the potential power of Facebook to win elections can be seen most vividly.
In late 2010 I visited The Mission Hospital (TMH) in Durgapur, a modest town by Indian standards (population about 1 million), nestled in India's northeast corner, near Bangladesh.
On the wrong side of the highway to the Hamptons, in a modest town unfashionably distant from the area's white-sand beaches, a simple wooden farm gate gives onto a rough drive cobbled from dirt, sand and pebbles.
The first time I saw the film I was about eighteen, with little classic Hollywood under my belt, it seemed like a diabolical drama interestingly set in a modest town and splashed with its local color but its heightened, even clichéd dialogue struck me as strange.
But Cromwell's father was a younger son who only inherited a small part of the family fortune and he was brought up in a modest town house.
LONDON — From a modest office in a small town in northeastern England, Elliott Peckett's family stocked the world with costumes.
Bill Clinton might be a Rhodes scholar who went to Yale Law School, but on the campaign trail he was always just a modest guy from a small town in Arkansas.
