Sentence examples for called for modesty from inspiring English sources

He called for "modesty and parsimony" in any new body.After the meeting, Mr Mantega said that each country should contribute between $300m and $500m to the bank's capital.

In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations he also called for modesty: "Anyone who says that they can offer up predictions about what the perfect policies are, when they're perfectly going to start delivering their results and we're going to start climbing out of this, frankly is an idiot".

Looking for the best practice, one should realise indeed that the results of various health-related quality-of-life studies after surgery called for modesty.

In Ramat Beit Shemesh B, signs on the walls of buildings call for modesty, exhorting women and girls to dress in buttoned-up, long-sleeved blouses and long skirts.

Uniforms have become much more functional and colorful since the beginning and are now frequently blue, orange, red, or green, and shorts are replaced by long trousers in areas where the culture calls for modesty, and in winter weather.

Farías has also called for dispensing with "false modesty" because this is the 'best Venezuelan generation in our history".

IG Metall, the largest union, recently won its 3m members a pay rise of roughly 3.5%, way above inflation, after its boss had called for "an end to modesty".

It is about embodying the prophet Micah's call for modesty: learning "to walk humbly with your God".

So, "It's not right to touch things that way" was, more than anything, a call for modesty.

On this occasion, he had evidently decided that some modesty and realism were called for.

Modesty and social savvy are called for whether you do your drinking at a gay bar or at Hooters.