Sentence examples for instead of a modest from inspiring English sources

Instead of a modest number of growers supporting research, all growers will support research.

Furthermore the loss reduction at City Link was below expectations and management now expect a small loss for fourth quarter instead of a modest profit.

Shares of the Manugistics Group, which makes business-tobusiness software, continued their slide yesterday, a day after the company warned that it expected a second-quarter loss instead of a modest profit.

Instead of a modest fee, consumers now need to pay $150 for the older operating system.

Instead of picking a modest subject for his first opera, he chose a landmark novel.

To my surprise, instead of uttering a modest disclaimer or reassuring words about the difference between writing and painting, Salle flushed and became defensive.

Making Obama into a man wearing brilliant red surfer trunks, instead of a more modest black pair, making the image more dramatic by having him walking out of darkness, and changing the exposure so he looks more gilded changes viewers' ideas about who the man is.

Instead of an anticipated modest pick-up during the first three months of this year, advertising billings in the region's biggest markets Germany, Britain, Spain, France, and Italy again shrank.

He horrified traditionalist Brazilian Catholics when he sold the city's ornate Pope Pius XII archiepiscopal palace, found other employment for the 25 servants he had inherited, and moved instead into a modest couple of rooms behind a monastery, where he would greet visitors, not in his cardinal's finery but in slippers and a cardigan.

Except now, instead of the modest hustle and bustle of a newsroom filled with tens of people, the "newsroom" experience of incoming and outgoing information has the potential to reach millions, with 200 million pieces of content produced a day.

She lived in Jakarta without the handsome perquisites of most expatriates, choosing instead a modest high-rise apartment where her most frequent visitors were Indonesians.