Sentence examples for a very modest piece from inspiring English sources

On the other side of the argument, senators such as Barbara Boxer of California have joined environmentalists in claiming that the project is "extra lethal .In reality, the Keystone Pipeline is a very modest piece of infrastructure.

Hillary Clinton has been tepid in her defense of Dodd-Frank, and Bernie Sanders called it "a very modest piece of legislation" that changed little about the way the Street does business.

Look at him and you see a very modest man.

Dr Borkin said: "Dr Girenko was a very modest man.

"My dad was a very modest man," Cook said.

An old man carries a large stone up a hill, building the foundation for a new house on the very modest piece of land he's just bought, after being twice displaced by the Taliban.

"He's a very modest and shy man".

He's a very modest and quiet man.

While David Moyes is obliged to piece together a line-up from a very modest budget, that did not stop him knocking out Liverpool and Manchester United in earlier rounds.

It's incredibly difficult to get published now; you have to burst on the scene with a kind of major statement piece of fiction, whereas then a publisher could take a very modest punt on you".

Only one piece of gun legislation is being proposed as a consequence of the Arizona shooting, and this is a very modest one – to ban the manufacture and sale of the kind of high-capacity magazine used by Loughner.