Sentence examples for distinctly modest from inspiring English sources

Pensions have grown, and are paid on time.All of which sounds distinctly modest.

Yet by the standards of his heyday the crowd was a distinctly modest one.

Far from it: homes start at a distinctly modest $155,000.

But Mr Berlusconi's anti-recession measures have been distinctly modest (involving extra net spending of only some €6 billion).

More than 100 countries are said now to have their own "human development centres" producing annual reports; Pakistan's is in a distinctly modest building in Islamabad.

Even some families with distinctly modest middle class salaries now struggle to fork out fees, averaging £6,250 per annum, for their child's education.

In the rapidly developing SoHo retail region, in stores along Broadway from Houston to Broome Streets, rentals are distinctly more modest, ranging from $75 to $225 a square foot.

Robert H. Jackson, who served President Franklin D. Roosevelt as attorney general for a year before his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1941, had a distinctly more modest conception of the office.

The problem is a distinctly modern one.

I distinctly remembered them wandering, unannounced, into my modest student hut at the research station, squabbling over looted bread all those years ago.

Labor organizers in New York City are embarking on an effort to bring together people like Mr. Najera and Mr. Jackson — workers who, though their jobs are distinctly different, share the economic challenge of living on modest wages and in sometimes poor conditions.