Half way through the coalition's term in office, Osborne abandoned the idea of sorting the deficit in one parliament, and reverted to a more modest plan akin to that drawn up by his predecessor, Alistair Darling.
Simply to say we don't attend sensorily to our mental states is to make only a modest claim, akin to the claim that we see objects rather than seeing our visual experiences of objects; but to say that we cannot attend to our mental states even intellectually appears extreme.
For a stretch of countries from Mauritania to Nigeria, Ivory Coast, despite its modest size, has been something akin to what the United States has often been to Latin America.
In contrast to Initiale, dinner at La Closerie, in a modest rowhouse in the Quartier Montcalm, is akin to eating at one's grandmother's house, assuming Grandmother was from Brittany and really knew how to cook.
We all do something akin to this — in a more modest way — every day, and so there was a point of empathy in the struggle.
It is meant to be token of appreciation, a modest gift that unites two families -- loosely akin to an engagement ring.
The medicine they practice was considered to be below the levels of the West, the system always suffered from shortages, and the social status of a provincial general practitioner was akin to a schoolteacher's, respectable, but modest.
Roberts promised to be that kind of modest, restrained justice, one who saw his role as akin to a nonpartisan "umpire who calls the balls and strikes".
Stimulation at 20 Hz afforded a significant but modest slowing of force production in the go task, akin to the results of Pogosyan et al.
Though its Jan . 19premiere was soft, the series has steadily climbed in viewership to numbers akin to some of the network's other modest performing series.
With modest means and a limited field of action, Hong achieves a complexity akin to the grand historical meditations of Alain Resnais; steering clear of explicit politics, he conjures revealing attitudes through reverberant — and often comical — details.
