Sentence examples for modest after from inspiring English sources

Those gifts may have seemed modest after Howard B. Bernick's retirement as Alberto-Culver's chief executive late last year.

"It's a way for an outgoing president to have some ongoing influence, however modest, after he's gone," said Thomas E. Mann, a Brookings Institution scholar.

Then he added, "If they want us to have some presence, even if it's very modest after the end of December, they're going to have to come to a conclusion and make a request pretty quick".

Even the rewards to some of the participants, prosecutors said, were modest: after each successful crime, the officials said, low-level runners were given a few hundred dollars and a meal at McDonald's.

The comeback was modest after Pearl Harbor, but the Dow Jones industrial average was slightly higher a month after the attack than a day after it, Dec. 8, 1941.

On the contrary, its growth was surprisingly modest after Turkey Day 2009.

About a quarter of the House races The Times expects to be competitive in metropolitan areas that are projected by Moody's to have had positive, albeit mostly modest, after-tax personal income growth between 2009 and 2010.

James Stewart, the chief financial officer, said the company would take a relatively modest $100 million after-tax charge in the fourth quarter for costs of revamping.

But protests were modest until after the Civil War, when row-house construction reached the East 60's.

Their valuations tend to be more modest because, after all, they're not globally recognized.

However, it's not clear if the delay in cell cycle re-entry (which is quite modest, especially after 72 hours after irradiation) causes the infertility.