The chain's gross margins were already modest compared with those of its competitors — the consequence, the leaders contended, of large portions, more expensive ingredients and low prices.
Malcolm Williams, a director of the UK Zero Waste Alliance, is concerned that increased incineration capacity may lead Europe to miss what he deems are already modest waste-reduction targets for 2020.
But their expectations were already modest enough: a viable, independent state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem -- a mere 22percentt of their original land.
However, in these conditions the extent of IGF1-induced proliferation was already modest.
Although there were already modest area differences at birth, our results demonstrate that the area- and laminar-specific downregulation of SLIT1 mRNA occurs during postnatal periods and leads to its prefrontal-enriched pattern in the macaque neocortex.
Jeffrey N. Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial in Boston, also noted that based on "forward earnings" — projected profits, as opposed to actual results — the market P/E is already quite modest.
This last point could well be true, but they seem over-eager to dismiss what is already there: those modest shops are livelihoods, and lives, for somebody.
That means Putin's government is already paying a modest price for its annexation of Crimea: since the start of the crisis, its borrowing costs have risen by about one per cent.
Just six weeks after its public debut, Yammer is already bringing in a modest amount of cash.
Although some of the series have been canceled and none has yet become a breakout success, NBC's midseason addition "Three Sisters," created by Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline, is already shaping up as a modest hit, and "What About Joan," a much-anticipated new ABC comedy starring Joan Cusack and created by Gwen Macsai, is scheduled to have its premiere in March.
