Sentence examples for been a modest step from inspiring English sources

But Toomey said his amendment would have at least been a modest step in the right direction.

But lawmakers do not seem to be listening: Earlier this month, an omnibus bill blocked Obama's plans to transfer control for the drone program from the CIA to the Pentagon, which would have been a modest step toward changing the program.

This is a modest step forward.

Proposition 2 is a modest step that deserves voter support and extension to other states.

The Senate bill, though weaker than computer users deserve, would be a modest step forward.

The pact is a modest step toward reducing a major source of abuses committed by corporations in the third world.

Since the worst human rights abuses are often by local authorities, that would be a modest step forward.

All that we can hope for right now is a modest step in the right direction, like the one Mr. Kerry is proposing.

"The vote is a modest step in Serbia confronting the truth, but there is no overall mood in Serbia to face up to the wrongdoings of the past".

But as a disarmament measure, it is a modest step, entailing a reduction of only 30 percent from the former limit — and some of that reduction is accomplished by the way the warheads are counted, not by their destruction.

It is a modest step against a backdrop of a council funding settlement, from Eric Pickles's department, clearly skewed against the very cities ironically being highlighted by the Cabinet Office for greater devolution.