Sentence examples for but a modest from inspiring English sources

IT IS anything but a modest proposal.

Not all of them — but a modest investment.

To purists, the plan is but a modest first step.

Nothing but a modest smile, and a back-to-business resumption of play.

"Governor is an important role, but a modest role," Brown told me this spring.

But it's worth pausing to sound not exactly a warning but a modest caveat.

That isn't a wild, radical, feminist manifesto but a modest suggestion.

But a modest search produced scores of bottles for $25 or less, far more than I had imagined.

But a modest technical standard can almost be an advantage when tackling the ballets of Antony Tudor.

But a modest growth of 4percentt in worldwide volume disappointed investors, who had been expecting a larger gain.

It will be a victory if it becomes law — and King told me that Brownback will sign it "very soon" — but a modest and perhaps short-lived one.