Sentence examples for equivalent of a modest from inspiring English sources

The modernization effort was a bold experiment, called Deepwater, to build the equivalent of a modest navy — 91 new ships, 124 small boats, 195 new or rebuilt helicopters and planes and 49 unmanned aerial vehicles.

At first glance, abortion as crime prevention may sound like a modern equivalent of "A Modest Proposal," in which Jonathan Swift, tongue in cheek, suggested that the Irish solve their famine by eating their own children.

The current average annual income is the equivalent of a modest burial or just above half of annual school fees for one child17.

There's a guaranteed minimum cash value, though, that is equivalent to a modest return on the savings component of the policy.

The impact of a health requirement of the size under consideration on businesses would be equivalent to a modest increase in the minimum wage.

So, in a sense, its significant features can be most truly assessed and appreciated in this equivalent of a camera close-up, modest in scale but vivid in detail, where a smudge of color is epochal, the twitch of the brush an event.

"What a change, going from a very modest equivalent of a garage to the other end of the scale in Midtown Manhattan in 15 years," he added.

AS the name suggests, DEB'S is a modest place, the equivalent of a Joe's or a Just Good Food.

LED FM compares favourably with ZN microscopy, with equivalent specificity and a modest increase in sensitivity.

With no hope, even, of a modest bust.

"It's a modest journey of a modest man that Mr. Arteta smartly doesn't inflate".