Sentence examples for modest accounting from inspiring English sources
The result at the Reagan library is a decidedly modest accounting of the Iran-contra affair, the major scandal that hit the administration, which avoids laying blame on anyone.
Some studies have concluded that trade explains a lot of the skill premium, but most find the effect of trade is rather modest, accounting for perhaps one-fifth of the rise in the premium.
The energy contribution of RecO to the SSB-ssDNA energy was modest, accounting for ∼250 kBT (or ∼1.2 kBT per SSB tetramer).
Second, the strength of the correlation between initial spasticity and gross motor development is modest, accounting for no more than 16% of explained variation in the change score of the 66-item version of the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66).
While the strength of this association is modest, accounting for between 6% and 10% of the variation in platelet response to CRP-XL and ADP, it was of a similar magnitude to the positive association seen between platelet reactivity and GPVI or αIIbβ3 surface expression.
Equally chilling is his modest account of his own, um, achievements.
There were modest accounts in local papers that paved the way for documentation of a broad-based scandal.
Fees for debit cards, account maintenance, below-minimum account fees and overdrafts which rose by 11% between 2000 and 2007 add up, particularly for modest accounts.
(He provides a modest account of its origin and development in the present volume; one day he might want to tell that tale in more exciting, less modest detail).
When I met Suschitzky in 2007, when appreciation for his work was gathering pace – largely at the behest, to be honest, of Austrian cultural forces – he was not only in incredibly good shape for a 94-year-old, but offered a highly articulate and modest account of himself.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, July 3, 1943 P. 13 The papers carried only the modest account of the Federal Trade Commission's complaint against Carter's Little Liver Pills; to wit, that they had no therapeutic effect on the liver.
