Sentence examples for modest advisory from inspiring English sources

The king is still an absolute ruler, however, and the councils function largely in modest advisory roles at the local level.

And as the head of a nongovernmental organization, he took the International Crisis Group from being a modest advisory council to its current status as a global ­foreign-policy investigative, analytical and advocacy organization, with considerable influence on governments (which pay some of its budget) and the general public.

The possible cardiovascular risks of Contrave, combined with only modest effectiveness, left the advisory committee somewhat lukewarm about the drug even as it voted to recommend approval.

Many are relatively modest, such as establishing advisory groups and task forces.

Conflict of interest: J.K.M. received modest speakers' bureau and medical advisory board compensation, and significant research support from GE Healthcare.

Their trading and lending arms are struggling, so even a modest loss of business on the advisory side stings.

"The charge to the advisory board was a relatively modest one.

[C10.] COMBATING SMOG Overruling the unanimous advice of its scientific advisory council, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a modest tightening of the smog standard.

The two decisions issued yesterday built on a 2005 decision that made the federal sentencing guidelines advisory rather than mandatory, which led to the modest trend toward leniency.

Yuri Dzhibladze, the president of a Russian nongovernmental organization and a member of Mr. Medvedev's advisory board, said it was necessary to seek modest reforms initially to build enough political will to eventually overturn the Putin-era curbs.

Although short of the $1 billion that the president requested and House and Senate spending panels approved earlier this year, it would be enough to provide "a modest amount of relief," said NIH Director Francis Collins at an advisory board meeting this morning.