Sentence examples for modest and less from inspiring English sources

REDUCING FORECLOSURES Mr. Obama's efforts to mitigate foreclosures have been more modest — and less successful.

But overall, the festivities were to be more modest and less jubilant than when Bulgaria and Romania – currently the EU's poorest states – became members.

Average revenue per user is also higher for insurance customers, but the extra revenue is modest and less important than the churn factor.

"She will work Saturday and Sunday too," her father, who is Ecuadorean, tells her amused mentor, whose goals for the internship are more modest and less narrowly focused.

Worker savings remain "modest," and less than half of workers appear to be taking basic steps needed to prepare for retirement, the survey found.

What about a more modest (and less Maoist) approach: using market-driven prices to deter waste and pollution?Market solutions do not come naturally to Chinese officials.

The plan looks decidedly more modest today, and less glamorous.

Software and Web 2.0 companies, by contrast, can be bootstrapped with more modest funds and less overhead.

A team of undergraduate engineers were given a relatively modest budget and less than 8 months to design and assemble an operational high-power PEMFC system.

Percentage increases in log likelihood were modest generally and less than 1% for two and three previous surveys (Table  1).

As the target is neared, dosage adjustments should be more modest and occur less frequently.