Sentence examples for a remarkably modest from inspiring English sources

(In Hong Kong, these treats are available at a remarkably modest price, compared to cities like New York and London).

For someone who transformed the lives of so many, Sir Robert Edwards, who passed away yesterday, was a remarkably modest and unassuming man.

This seems to us a remarkably modest percentage, it being incomparably more valuable to live in a free country than even the best remodelled brownstone in the world.

Now the veteran, a remarkably modest man with a commanding presence, unexpectedly finds himself under consideration to receive the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.

With just one concert a day, the Progetto has a remarkably modest budget of only 600,000 Swiss francs, or about $550,000, according to the artistic director Carlo Piccardi.

He was a remarkably modest man, a physically large and powerful presence with the build of a bespectacled wrestler, sometimes wearing his hair in a ponytail and with a cockney growl of a voice.

That is still a remarkably low standard.

Mr. Golisano's pay package, just under $750,000 a year, is remarkably modest, executive compensation experts say.

But it seems remarkably modest for a company that was run by an empire-building chief executive, Ron Sommer, who once boasted of having a $100 billion war chest for deals around the world.

'The difficult thing with the new marking system is to try and do something that will get points for technical difficulty as well as being new and innovative.' The Kerrs predicted no better than a top-12 finish for themselves, which seems remarkably modest.

In interviews Ms. Buss was remarkably modest about her vanguard role in a male-dominated profession.