Sentence examples for do something modest from inspiring English sources

"We're just trying to do something modest," said Benjamin Lee, Twitter's legal counsel.

"But the threat is that if they try to do something modest like an artillery barrage," he continues, "it can lead to unintended consequences".

Rather than do something modest — focused, say, on tailoring — or even skipping a season until a new designer could be hired, the house took the risk of exposing inferior work.

Do something modest, today is not the day to mess up with hair.

I begin by asking them to do something quite modest, and if it's good I go along with them.

"If we want to do something more modest, we are going to have to take a back seat and let things develop on the ground.

Then they hired the Manhattan ad agency Lowe Marschalk to do something, on a modest budget, for television.

The 105 delegates who made up the Convention on the Future of Europe tried to do something much more modest: codifying common ground among long-established states that will give their union more of a logical structure -- and perhaps more power -- as they expand eastward.

I wanted to do something very serene, gray, modest and kind.

He is a Wall Street Journal writer who has done something seemingly modest but actually invaluable: traced the microeconomics of immigration at the level of the individual, the small business, the street corner.

While the bank may do something down the road, he said expectations have to be "very very modest".