Madigan was joined by the South Australian independent senator Nick Xenophon, who said the students involved in Sunday's protest were simply making "modest and respectful" demands of Australian consular officials.
There's an undercurrent of thought — one rooted in an antiquated and nostalgic vision of a halcyon classic Hollywood that supposedly both reached the masses and made modest and un-self-conscious art — that looks to producers to restrain the idiosyncrasies of directors and fit them into a readily marketable package of popular appeal.
It's not easy to find a house that's extremely underpriced -- and if you do, it's probably not one you'd want to live in while you're fixing it up -- but you can aim to buy a lower-priced home in the neighborhood you want, live in it and make modest repairs, and then sell it years later for a profit.
We could make modest adjustments and make the [Social Security] system financially stable for a century, and we could make somewhat larger adjustments and make the system pay more for seniors who rely on it..
Janeway presented figures showing that, in normal times, venture-capital funds tend to make modest returns, and that they struggle to raise a lot of money.
Kick the bad habits and make modest, but continued, improvements to diet and lifestyle to have very significant health benefits.
For some years Degas had also been quietly exploring the medium of sculpture, using wax and other materials to make modest statuettes of horses and a group of figures that culminated in the tantalizingly lifelike wax sculpture, The Little Dancer Aged 14 (1478–814.
"An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease" by the Milken Institute estimated that modest reductions in avoidable factors -- unhealthy behavior, environmental risks and the failure to make modest gains in early detection and innovative treatment -- will lead to 40 million fewer cases of illness and gain over $1 trillion annual in labor supply and efficiency by 2023".
At first, we thought we'd simply correct some errors and make modest changes.
The emerging video technology, she said, had created a new way to make modest, intimate films quickly and cheaply.
