Sentence examples for call for modest from inspiring English sources
"The passage does call for modest dress," Bhutto concludes, "but for both sexes".
Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, also a Republican, plans to call for modest income tax cuts, and Missouri lawmakers have discussed reforming their tax code.
A day ahead of his State of the Union address, in which he is expected to call for modest spending cuts and raising revenues by closing tax loopholes, his spokesman publicly rejected the option of raising the eligibility age for Medicare.
In a Sina Weibo survey of 44,580 respondents, approximately 70% chose the answer "Women should be dressed in a self-protective manner" when asked what they think of the Shanghai Metro's call for modest clothing.
Instead there were studies, sitting rooms, drawing rooms and retreats -- modest, functional rooms for a year that called for modest statements and scaled-back ambitions.
Sturgeon called for modest spending increases in the next parliament, saying that a couple of years longer to end the deficit was a price worth paying.
The New Start treaty, the first arms control agreement signed with the Russians in nearly a decade, calls for modest nuclear reductions, from 2,200 deployed warheads to 1,550.
And, in a highly unusual campaign on March 1st, a dozen publications ran identical editorials calling for modest reform to the household-registration system that discriminates against rural Chinese.
Under the plan, which calls for modest reform, France intends to bring public sector workers -- more than one-fourth of the French work force -- in line with the private sector by 2008.
The opposition began weeks ago by calling for modest changes to the country's electoral law and a reshuffling of the cabinet, but their demands have increased recently, and there are now growing calls for more fundamental constitutional reform that would limit the powers of King Abdullah II.
