Sentence examples for modest addition from inspiring English sources

And no sonata has a rear facade where a modest addition might be discretely built.

"The civil commitment statute before us represents a modest addition," he added, comparing it to medical quarantine.

What the Clubman adds is space, with the modest addition of 2.5 inches of knee room in back and 50percentt more cargo space behind the rear seat.

"It's a modest addition to taxation for folks who make a half-million or more, but it would make a huge strategic difference for our schools".

But it proposes only a modest addition of at most 100,000 square feet of meeting and exhibition space, down from more than half a million square feet in an earlier proposal.

The position earned Sharapova a symbolic $1 salary, a modest addition to the glut of highly lucrative contracts that, prior to her ban, made her the world's highest-paid female athlete for 11 successive years until she was deposed by Serena Williams this year.

Modest additions were made in the 19th century.

But purists might consider even those modest additions a little fussy.

On Tuesday the foreign niche will get three worthwhile if more modest additions from Steeplechase Entertainment, a new California distributor named for an old Brooklyn racetrack.

Facing a bleak economic picture and austere budget, the Education Department is scaling back its ambitions for new buildings or even modest additions.

At a two-day session of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates pleaded with allies to fulfill pledges for troops, and they promised modest additions.