Sentence examples for expand modestly from inspiring English sources

Robert Drew and his associates here expand — modestly but decisively — the bounds of documentary to include a new realm of aesthetic psychology.

Strictly speaking, Romer was correct: most economic forecasters are predicting that the economy will expand modestly in the fourth quarter, which would mark an end to the recession.

He predicted that the world economy would begin to expand modestly in the fourth quarter of this year, followed by "subpar growth" in 2010.

This spring, as the blockbuster machinery shifts gears from "Watchmen" to "Wolverine," a handful of small movies from relatively young directors are setting out to expand, modestly but with notable seriousness, the scope of American filmmaking.

And business surveys indicate that output is expanding modestly in the manufacturing sector.

However, machine-tool orders rebounded, and the Federal Reserve reports that the economy "expanded modestly" in September.

Job growth accelerated, the workweek expanded modestly, wages ticked up and the unemployment rate declined.

In reality, it makes very little difference whether the economy expanded modestly in the first quarter, contracted marginally or was flat.

The survey found the German and Irish services sectors expanding modestly, but the sector contracted in a "marked" way in France, Italy and Spain.

BEIJING — Activity in China's service sector defied the cooling of the country's economy and expanded modestly in July, a private survey showed Monday.

This was also evident in the September manufacturing purchasing managers survey which showed overall activity expanding modestly for a third successive month but at a slightly reduced rate compared to August.