Sentence examples for build on a modest from inspiring English sources

As we look back at 75 years of Social Security from the vantage point of year one of health care reform, history teaches us to be optimistic that we can build on a modest beginning, if we keep fighting to improve what we've started.

Everything in the state capital, Kota Bharu, near the border with Thailand, is built on a modest scale.

It is a town built on a modest scale that has retained its historical charms — perfect for a weekend getaway from its big-city neighbor.

As we noted in a previous review (Lavis, L. D.; Raines, R. T. ACS Chem. Biol. 2008, 3, 142 155), the extant collection of fluorescent probes is built on a modest set of "core" scaffolds that evolved during a century of academic and industrial research.

And the 60,000-square-foot New Museum building was built on a relatively modest budget of $50 million.

There are more practical enterprises, such Romanys Ironmonger's (number 51) that, from the look of its windows, still charges in shillings and pence; and the Brewer Street car park, a shrine to motoring built on such a modest scale that you sense nothing bigger than a Mini would squeeze in.

You can build on a point.

The next Congress should build on this modest success and tackle more deep-seated reforms.

Some groups, like the Brennan Center, at New York University, are making admirable attempts to build on the (modest) public outrage about the flawed mechanics of the 2012 election.

The left's folk-music wing hoped to build on its modest successes before and during the war.

He also needs to revive the economy, to build on modest recent signs of growth.