Sudan is partially ruled by Islamic law, which emphasizes modest dress for women.
Because weight losses of just 5 to <10% of initial body weight significantly increased the odds of achieving clinically meaningful changes in glycemic control, blood pressure, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides at 1 year, emphasizing modest weight losses seems to be an appropriate clinical message for overweight and obese patients with type 2 diabetes.
Should we emphasize the modest slowdown in hiring in 2017 or the surprising durability of job growth in the ninth year of the economic recovery?
My friend Andy Revkin, whose indispensable Dot Earth blog is where serious climate conversation takes place, prefers to emphasize more modest projects aimed at bolstering the city's resilience.
"There is a growing number of consumers who believe correctly that home prices will rise, albeit modestly," said Bruce Karatz, who heads Los Angeles-based home building giant Kaufman & Broad Corp. Karatz and other home industry observers emphasize the modest nature of the regional housing recovery.
Results of this study emphasize the modest effect of exercise, the necessity of coupling weight loss with exercise, and the impressive effect of combined treatment.
In 1955 Fortune magazine published an essay, "How top executives live," which emphasized how modest their lifestyles had become compared with days of yore.
At campaign events, Mr. Gephardt emphasizes his modest Midwestern roots, eschewing the dark suits he wears in Congress for checked shirts and khaki trousers.
Rather than dispute the reality of the warming or its cause, they have lately emphasized its modest size and say mild warming won't do much damage.
Equality is emphasized with modest dress and shared rituals.
