Sentence examples for how modest it from inspiring English sources

"Doing politics like this, on this very modest level, I sometimes get embarrassed by how modest it is," he said.

In fact if you took that piece of bill and compared it to other leading democracies in the world, you will realise how modest it is.

Grace The massive circular bar planted beneath Grace's soaring cathedral ceiling is remarkable not only for how big it is but also, paradoxically, by how modest it seems in comparison to the vast ecclesiastical square footage that surrounds it.

While Ghana, Uruguay and South Korea are all difficult to beat — if anything, this World Cup has shown that any team, no matter how modest its reputation, can defeat any other — none of them are considered giants of the game.

Hmm, I said, expressing some of that out loud, are you sure Scots would accept such limited monetary independence?Mr Salmond was off, dancing and diving, explaining how much more credit-worthy Scotland would be, how modest its stocks of debt, and how restrained its borrowing.

"Looking back from the vantage point of the 1990s," remarks Robert Frank, "it is surprising how modest our aspirations were in the 1980s".

But, it's surprising how modest she is!

To an outsider, it is striking how modest the obstacles are in relation to Haiti's potential.

I confessed to Ms. Koza how modest my current sewing goals were: "It's just a little rip on the knee".

Yet for all the richness here, it's striking how modest almost all of these gifts are.

It doesn't matter how modest their house and how tight their budget is, Brazilians are sincerely generous with their food, their space and their time.