They left with modest expectations: advance to the knock-out stages and perhaps emulate the famous team of 1958 by reaching the quarter-finals of a major tournament.
The two had said they were studying English but rarely left the modest two-story house, and their language ability showed no improvement.
Among the dead in the crash on Saturday was another elderly couple: Thomas and Maylin Wong, who every Friday night left their modest fourth-floor apartment on Mott Street in Chinatown and walked two blocks to board the bus to Mohegan Sun, said Mokit Lee, 42, a niece of Ms. Wong.
In 1891, a woman left a modest legacy to New York City to build a drinking fountain; what emerged more than three decades later was a large work by Frederick William MacMonnies, depicting a young, virtually nude male with a sword, trampling on two female figures, who represent urban vice.
But reports in Pakistan, attributed to Taliban officials, have said the reclusive Taliban leader left his modest home near the old royal palace in the center of Kandahar after his meetings early last week with a Pakistan military delegation that carried an ultimatum from Mr. Bush for the handover of Mr. bin Laden.
You are left with modest risk on top of what already has bloodied us.
In other words, if EMC joined the parade of companies breaking in two, and it spun off VMware, it would be left a modest sized company.
Climbing out of bed one morning, a teenage Harrison left his modest three-bedroom terraced home and went to catch a bus to school.
In September 2009, her camp was torched and attacked by "unidentified people," who left the modest home of the Apy Ka'y in ruin.
However, adjusting for a more limited range of confounding factors, excluding those factors possibly a consequence of reduced vision, left a modest increased risk: RR 1.19 (95% CI 1.06 to 1.34).
