Sentence examples for be modest that when from inspiring English sources

Beerbohm had found so many ways to be modest that when he had to try and be major he couldn't.

Be modest in response when people praise you.

Be modest when it comes to choosing bows and ribbons.

Losses on contracts linked to Lehman turned out to be modest, but nobody knew that when it collapsed in September 2008, causing panic.

"That's modest when you look at other districts," he said, "but not when you're the taxpayer".

"The Selbach-Oster is the kind of wine that is modest when you first taste it, then awakens in your mouth," she said.

The investment of several billion dollars a year is modest when one considers that a proposed expansion of Chicago's O'Hare Airport alone is slated to cost $6 billion, or that $8.5 billion in federal money has been sunk into Boston's "Big Dig" -- a project that essentially entails moving roads underground.

So while Gallo is correct that Windows Phone is modest in size, when lashed to Windows 8.x's app download figures, the value proposition — even if still smaller when combined than the upper echelons of Apple and Google's platforms — makes more sense.

An intervention that might sound very expensive at the institutional level is modest when costs were hypothecated for individual patients.

Expectations were modest when D'Antoni arrived last spring.

Although it is modest in appearance, when I conduct tours of the hall, whether privately or to large groups, I always find that this astonishes people.