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Dismissed by some critics as a poseur, the Equus has established a modest toehold in a class dominated by far pricier models from Mercedes, BMW, Lexus and Audi.

Under its music director, Alan Gilbert, the Philharmonic has already established a modest new-music series in smaller concert halls and has installed composers and artists in residence.

The lab's 36-acre site has its roots in the late 19th century, when lumberjacks returned from the nearby woods with an unusual illness known as "the black measles". State officials established a modest outpost, which the federal government purchased in 1932, to investigate what was later identified as Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Beckett fled south and lived for part of the war as a near vagrant and possible resistance fighter, in and around Roussillon. Returning to Paris after the liberation in 1944, he published a brilliant trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) and established a modest reputation as a writer's writer, an avant gardist with a quirky wit.

"The Americans" begins in 1981, more than a decade after the show's spies, played by Ms. Russell and Matthew Rhys, emigrated to the United States, had children and established a modest travel agency — all part of the cover — in Falls Church, Va.

In a little under three years, Jan Bibi and Sharif have established a modest but profitable business.

Rule devolved to the level of the city-state, although the Normans succeeded in establishing a modest empire in southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century.

The corollary to this, the third item, is to establish a modest, federal eurozone "budget" (quite distinct from the EU budget).

By the early 1990s, when India embarked on the liberal reforms that were to enable him to make his fortune, he was battling to establish a modest copper smelter.

Wishing to honor their uncle, Theophilus Wheeler Walker, a Boston businessman who had helped establish a modest gallery at the college, they commissioned the prestigious firm of McKim, Mead & White to design the new building.

They revolve around establishing a modest eurozone "budget" to be spent on mitigating the impact of structural reforms that eurozone governments sign up to via "contracts" with the European Commission.