Sentence examples for measures a modest from inspiring English sources

The trunk officially measures a modest 14.8 cubic feet, but it feels cavernous in daily use.

Worse, its screen measures a modest 32 inches, rather than the 50 inches or more typical today.No question, a lusty flat-panel HDTV would deliver a more engrossing experience.

Sunk into the desert floor in the southern Mojave, it's 5 feet deep and measures a modest 11 feet by 5 feet.

In the SNpc of PGC1α-KO mice, we measured a modest, non-significant increase in the level of PGC-1β expression (0.28 ± 0.05 AU), when compared to WT mice (0.21 ± 0.06 AU; Figure  1b).

Promisingly, the Chinese bank regulator announced draft rules in May to allow domestic and foreign institutions to set up consumer-finance firms to offer personal loans for consumer-goods purchases.These measures are a modest step in the right direction.

Patient-rated (LQOLP) and assessor-rated (QLS) measures showed a modest correlation (r = 0.38).

Nearly two centuries after his death, it has been confirmed that the French military and political leader had a "very small" penis, measured at a modest one-and-a-half inches.

In the first scene, President Obama, recognizing that the clock was ticking down on the possibility to achieve a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, laid down, in a May 19th speech, what by any measure was a modest marker -- the notion that "the '67 borders, with mutually agreed upon land swaps" should form the basis for any Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.

We compared the magnitude of LD for all possible pairs of the 11 SNPs in controls by calculating D' and r2 (Table 3 - additional file 3., upper diagonal), because LD around common alleles can be measured with a modest sample size of 40 50 individuals to a precision equal to 10 20% of the asymptotic limit [ 19].

The insider trading measure began as a modest bill to rehabilitate the reputation of Congress.

But as a disarmament measure, it is a modest step, entailing a reduction of only 30 percent from the former limit — and some of that reduction is accomplished by the way the warheads are counted, not by their destruction.