The phrase "a more modest role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's position or responsibilities, indicating that they are taking on a less prominent or significant role than before.
Example: "After the restructuring, she decided to accept a more modest role within the company, focusing on team support rather than leadership."
Alternatives: "a less prominent role" or "a smaller role".
The Joyce will have a more modest role.
Pearce said that she would remain in the party in a more modest role.
Many Americans would be fine with a more modest role in world affairs.
In Ms. Walter's view, computers will probably play a more modest role in reducing lines for several more years.
She sees a more modest role for it, as "a practical way of ensuring that the class functions properly".
Economic growth and rising wages have been driving forces in the decline of poverty, with a strengthened social safety net playing a more modest role, the study found.
But he also objected to Khrushchev's insistence that Romania abandon its headlong drive to industrialize and, instead, accept the more modest role of supplier of agricultural products and raw materials to the designated "industrial powers" of Comecon.
"Affording state taxpayers standing to press such challenges simply because their tax burden gives them an interest in the state treasury, " Roberts wrote, "would interpose the federal courts as virtually continuing monitors of the wisdom and soundness of state fiscal administration, contrary to the more modest role Article III envisions for federal courts".
That is why I believe New York voters will shun Weiner for mayor, while endorsing Spitzer for the far more modest role he is aspiring to.
It seems more likely that Lin, who has a degree in economics, will ultimately settle into a more modest nightly role.
But now, after a decade of enormous costs in blood and treasure, and visible successes against Al Qaeda, the nation is again insisting on a more modest global role.
