Sentence examples for historically modest from inspiring English sources

While Obama has the backing of ninety-four per cent of African-American voters, Romney is currently attracting a historically modest zero per cent.

A 2011 poll found that more than half of all Americans think the U.S. is still in recession or even depression, despite official data that shows a historically modest recovery.

Through this office, the university's research commercialization activities are historically modest compared to its benchmark institutions.

From 1990 to 2005 the most significant growth rates of nonprofit theaters, in order, have been in Nevada, Arkansas, Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Mississippi, states with relatively small populations that have historically had modest numbers of theaters.

The move by the prosecutors began a series of legal hearings and a separate public debate over how executives are paid in Germany, where compensation has historically been modest by American standards but kept much more secret.

"Per-capita spending and medical inflation are all at historically very modest levels," said Andy Slavitt, the Obama administration official who oversees the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as implementation of the law.

Another factor rests with how much influence Rouhani will continue to wield, especially if economic gains from sanctions relief prove more modest than promised, as is likely given the historically low price of oil.

Rates remain at historically low levels, with recent inflation data having delayed even a modest rise until next year.

Rates are historically low.

Rates are still very modest historically, with yields not far above 45-year lows.

Wall Street historically has a modest rally in the last five trading days of the year and the first two in January.