Sentence examples for modest act of from inspiring English sources

This was his modest act of literary heroism.

But this modest act of contrition came too late.

Hegley compares this to his own, modest act of philanthropy – recycling.

This modest act of subversion led to an appointment with the Stasi, and he was barred from going to university.

It was only later when he received several stern texts and emails informing him that Conservative party headquarters wanted him to reinstate the site immediately, and when news programmes started calling, that he realised that his modest act of protest had hit a nerve.

A few days ago, a real life friend noticed a modest act of kindness from me on Facebook.

While making claim to the notion that the Conservatives are the party of "working people", he is "squeezing the very poorest who have no job" and "indulging in some modest acts of redistribution from the very rich".

She visited someone's mother's grave, paid a phone bill, went on a blind date and ate someone else's favorite meal in Haifa: modest acts of personal grace she documents in small photographs and brief texts, not stridently political, more like pennies tossed into the ocean of change.

Respondents' lengthy and tortured efforts to recharacterize the decision below as a modest, hardly noticeable, garden-variety act of ordinary statutory interpretation fail to withstand the mildest scrutiny.

Consider the voting record on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007, (Castle/DeGette) a modest expansion in new embryonic stem cell lines for research.

-- in an act of unprecedented symbolic self-sacrifice, we might also make one modest request.