Sentence examples for modest abilities from inspiring English sources

And yet Mr. Combs has always taken a perverse pride in having more modest abilities.

Helen Clark, the New Zealand prime minister, said: "Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities.

"I was just an enthusiastic mountaineer of modest abilities," Sir Edmund Hillary said on the 50th anniversary of his pioneering climb of Mount Everest, "an average bloke".

Louis Ginsberg was a poet of mild manners and modest abilities, whose neat stanzas were often to be seen in the poetry corner of the New York Times.

I do it simply because of that feeling when you get into the rehearsal room when we transcend our own modest abilities.

MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 225 Madison Ave . at 36th St. (212-685-0008)—Émile Bernard (1868-1941) had only modest abilities as a painter, but his talent for friendship was great.

BIOMEDICAL SOLUTIONS The body has a modest ability to repair DNA damage from small doses of radiation.

The holes are generally under 200 yards, and the greens can usually be reached by players of modest ability in one shot.

"Hotels have a modest ability now to increase their average daily rate, but they can increase their bottom line by trying to institute more add-on, ancillary fees," he said.

Though a player of a modest ability, he was on the national team and also captained Al-Ahly Tripoli, which for years had been embroiled in a dispute with the Benghazi club over who had the right to the "Al-Ahly" name.

The IPLOCA/BP studies concluded that the more modest ability to carry 75 tonnes travelling up to 800km was more feasible and still very useful says Philippe Lopez, one of the engineers who carried out the research at BMT Syntek, a firm based in Arlington, Virginia.