Sentence examples for allow for a modest from inspiring English sources

She began spending nights reinventing the shirt, rearranging the buttons to allow for a modest peek of cleavage, and adding a second, internal placket of buttons that smoothes out any puckering or gape.

Since 1998, when he became the chief elected official of the county that encompasses Orlando, he has trimmed services to allow for a modest tax cut; fired a fire chief for not promoting women and minorities; dismantled the department of community affairs, a civil rights-era agency established to give the poor a voice in county affairs, and introduced regular drug testing for many county employees.

As we go further 'leftward' we encounter classical liberal views that allow taxation for (other) public goods and social infrastructure and, moving yet further 'left', some classical liberal views allow for a modest social minimum. e.g., Hayek, 1976: 87).

These calculations are based on power of 80% with 95% confidence and allow for a modest dropout rate.

Allowing for a modest delay would remove the excuse that revealing results would risk giving away hedge funds' investment secrets.

Allowing for a modest bit of hyperbole, 2000 should be a good year for Beaujolais, and there are plenty to choose from.

A row of blouses on display shows the care she put into details: she liked mother-of-pearl buttons and occasionally allowed for a modest flourish, like a ruffle or a bow.

Even allowing for a modest revival in the industrial gases sector since then, it is hard to believe that Airgas shares would trade above $50 if Air Products abandoned its bid.

In post-Second World War Italy, education cemented old hierarchies, but it also allowed for a modest assimilation of the deserving, so that to some extent those who remained at the bottom could say to themselves, "I ended up here because I didn't want to study".

Whatever the flaws of the system, it did provide a minimal standard of talent selection and allowed for a modest level of social circulation.

"The price of crude oil is still slightly below where it was at this time last year and, even allowing for a modest rise, retail gasoline prices can be expected to remain well below the $4.00 a gallon mark".