Sentence examples for maintain modest from inspiring English sources

Even some big countries that previously appeared to have stagnated, such as Ethiopia, Ghana, and Uganda, have recently managed to maintain modest gains in per-capita income.

Still, despite the steep decline in external demand, the Slovak economy may maintain modest positive rates of growth in the coming years, the institute said, driven by domestic demand supported by the government's deficit spending policy.

Trade, oil pipelines and military exercises with China under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization make it the new organizing pole for the region, with the U.S. scrambling to maintain modest military bases in the region.

The Bank of England now sets interest rates and, with seven cuts over the past year, has been able to maintain modest economic growth while other European economies have faltered.

The next few years represent an important growth stage for our expanding company; as chief executive my goal is to maintain modest profitability and to reinvest as much capital as possible increasing compensation, hiring more employees,  and adding more tools and resources to deliver our services in better ways.

The practice stems from Quran, which says that men and women should maintain modest relations.

But he would plow the savings into troops and weapons modernization, maintaining modest growth in overall spending.

Moreover, concerns over maintaining modest dress and contact sports with members of the opposite sex can also make traditional sports clubs off-putting.

The Conservative government before 1997, aided by most of the press, did all it could to ensure Britain was economically and politically in no position to enter the euro zone.On the Schengen agreement on border controls, Britain, as the EU's biggest island member and with no internal identity-card system, took the sensible step of maintaining modest checks at British airports.

While alkylamine, alkylphthalimide, and alkylphenyl groups introduced at the N-1 position afforded derivatives that maintained modest inhibition of the supercoiling activity of DNA gyrase, none retained ability to poison DNA gyrase.

The proem to book 2 extols the Epicurean life of detached tranquility, portrayed as maintaining modest and easily satisfied appetites while shunning lofty ambitions and the disquiet these inevitably bring in their wake.