Sentence examples for means of modest from inspiring English sources

(Chinen) 'A Night in Treme' (Friday and Saturday) More than any particulars of character or plot, it's the stubborn persistence of New Orleans music — as communal ritual, as cultural currency, as a means of modest income or immodest exhibition — that forms the backbone of the HBO series "Treme".

More than any particulars of character or plot, it's the stubborn persistence of New Orleans music — as communal ritual, as cultural currency, as a means of modest income or immodest exhibition — that forms the backbone of "Treme," set in the months after Hurricane Katrina.

(Chinen) 'A Night in Treme' (Thursday) More than any particulars of character or plot, it's the stubborn persistence of New Orleans music — as communal ritual, as cultural currency, as a means of modest income or immodest exhibition — that forms the backbone of the HBO series "Treme".

Schumacher (1966) argues that Buddhists do not become attached to wealth, which stands in the way of liberation, but rather satisfy their needs by means of modest use of resources.

They are too specialized for broad-spectrum museums and usually beyond the means of more modest venues.

With travel rewards, far-flung destinations may finally be within reach -- and within the means of a modest budget.

Rewarding risk-taking also means that more people of modest means will take the plunge and start their own businesses.

And further stimulus has come to mean a series of modest one-off quick fix jolts to encourage job formation.

KATONAH -- "Of Modest Means: Small Works Exhibition".

His parents were of modest means but hardly poor.

But the actual beneficiaries are American households of modest means.