Sentence examples for kept modest from inspiring English sources

ChinaWhys, which kept modest offices in Shanghai, had about 10 employees, according to Xinhua, China's state-run news agency.

The fixes that are needed appear modest, and they can be kept modest by making the changes sooner rather than later so the savings have time to accumulate.

Despite some suggestions from the Bush camp right after the election was decided that the proceedings would be kept modest, if only for lack of time to prepare, the scale of this week's activities is not much different from that of other inaugurations over the last two decades.

This isn't to say you can't have any ads on your pages; they just need to be kept modest, especially if they are above the fold.

We demonstrate that resistant outbreaks can occur more readily when the spread of disease is further delayed by applying other curtailing measures, even if treatment levels are kept modest.

Corporations may still need to keep modest data centers in-house to run essential services and host some applications that are considered an essential part of their DNA, but the rest of the stuff will be hosted in other locations by a number of service providers.

Marshall has kept things modest.

One thing that has kept inflation modest in America is the availability of ample spare capacity overseas, because the economic cycles of the big economies have until now moved out of synchronisation.

In the evening, he would light the tiny lamp in the hole, which allowed the Deedars to see each other's faces but kept the modest flame hidden from anyone outside the bunker.

Mr. Teitelbaum said that more than half of the contributions came in response to direct-mail solicitations, which meant that Mr. Giuliani, who has kept a modest campaign schedule, did not have to leave City Hall much to raise the cash.

Deeply influenced by early Italian Renaissance painting, Mr. Schneeman worked often in egg tempera, producing many small fresco portraits, as well as landscapes of Tuscany, where he and his wife kept a modest apartment.