Sentence examples for modest against from inspiring English sources

Success has been modest against a player whose standing reach is 9 feet 2 inches, only 10 inches below the rim.

Large as they are, the immediate costs of the financial clean-ups seem modest against the scale of the banking mess and costs of previous banking crises.

Still, HSBC's struggles look modest against those at Standard Chartered, where the share price has almost halved in two years, including a big fall last week after the latest profit warning.

In some cases — for example, not buying a case of bottled water at the local market to have at town functions — the impact of such pledges is relatively modest against a $10 billion-a-year national industry.

And although the sum was modest against the scale of its profits, Shell yesterday announced that it would pay the plaintiffs $15.5 million -- the largest such settlement in history.

The aminoglycoside, gentamicin has shown continued activity against most Enterobacteriaceae in all five countries, and modest activity against S. aureus but not against CNS strains.

This issue of synthetic tractability has focused researchers' efforts towards the synthesis of either racemic analogues or derivatives that contain simple modifications, and has yielded limited improvements in activity against M. tuberculosis and modest activity against mtFabH [18] [22].

While a Turkish fleet had sufficed to dismantle a large part of Venice's empire, Bayezid, fearing that an alliance of Christian powers using his brother Cem might be formed against him, committed only a modest force against the Mamlūks.

For instance, the 3,6-dimethoxy analog (31) had modest activity against VZV and no activity against HCMV.

Instead, it has been a stretch of stunning mediocrity — a sorry defeat against the Minnesota Timberwolves, an expected failure against the Denver Nuggets, and only modest success against the Charlotte Bobcats.

However, a majority of these compounds showed potent activity against pregnane X receptor (PXR) and modest activity against liver X receptor α (LXRα).