Sentence examples for modest action from inspiring English sources

Several colleges are sufficiently alarmed by the data to take modest action.

Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Dec. 18) is right that our government's "modest action" with regard to the Sudanese genocide is distressing.

If Congress does not support a relatively modest action in response to a chemical attack that killed more than 1,400 people in Syria, Obama advisers said, the president will not be able to count on support for virtually any use of force.

Rolando said postal workers will be visiting the home offices of lawmakers on Tuesday to urge a much more modest action -- the return of the pension overpayments.

This modest action was not associated with demonstrable effects on 45Ca uptake and insulin release.

Altogether, these results show unequivocally that the modest action of pHi on IKSper and Vm is not due to the specifics of our experimental conditions.

More modest actions are planned at the San Diego-Tijuana crossing, as well as in some 60 other cities from Thunder Bay, Ontario, to Buenos Aires.

By Jeffrey Toobin December 22, 2015 President Obama, pictured here during the investiture ceremony of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, has made modest actions to reform mass incarceration, but he could be using his Presidential pardon power more aggressively.

With the ban on gay pride parades in effect, organizers of Saturday's events planned modest actions that were strictly legal: one-person pickets and a rally in a cordoned-off corner of Gorky Park that is dubbed "Hyde Park" because it's specifically set aside for free speech.

The modest actions proposed by MIT's climate plan fit nicely into these conversation parameters, which have so far failed to generate substantive action.

Despite his criticism of the congressional Republicans, he agrees with them on a number of basic issues such as tax cuts and gun control.Rather, his appeal is that of a problem-solver who promises to side-step the bickering of Washington and concentrate instead on encouraging modest government action by the states, the counties and the cities.