Sentence examples for is no modest from inspiring English sources
It is no modest "sporting fraud".
With barely a nod to the impending calamity, he aims not to explain what caused or was lost to the war, but to retrieve from the partial glare of hindsight the world in which it erupted.This is no modest undertaking.
If LeBron James were to scrawl his career goals on, say, a New York deli napkin, the list might look something like this: Win Olympic gold medal Win N.B.A. championship Become global icon These are not modest aspirations, but then James, the Cleveland Cavaliers star who answers to the nickname King, is no modest figure.
This is no "modest cap," as Ms. Wardman suggests.
It is no longer a modest storefront cafe.
Outsourcing is no longer a modest strategy but a central component of business practices.
It was no modest water feature, either, but a cascade running green over a lip of black rock and then plunging into foam.
Still, they and the Federal Home Loan Bank, he said, "are no longer modest experiments on the fringes of our financial system".
Economists generally concur the benefits of such policies would be no more than modest.
And modest steps are no longer an option.
That everything has a reason "from which it is understood" why it is rather than not is certainly no modest claim about the intelligibility of the universe.
