Sentence examples for modest and temporary from inspiring English sources

But the relief will be modest and temporary.

In the legislation just approved, Congress provided modest, and temporary, relief from the alternative minimum tax.

And it would not break the country's fiscal rules.German politicians are convinced that their slowdown will be modest and temporary.

"The U.S. saved from default by a fragile, modest and temporary accord," read a headline in the French newspaper Le Monde on Monday.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a modest and temporary freeze on military assistance to Egypt, even as American officials emphasized their desire to avoid rupturing a security relationship that stretches back more than three decades.

At the Catholic Charities administrative office in downtown Brooklyn, Mr. Siebel said the Guevara's case is a typical example of the modest and temporary nature of help for the working poor from the Neediest Cases Fund.

If news events as momentous as the Giffords or Bin Laden stories produce only relatively modest and relatively temporary changes in the polls, that doesn't leave much room for the lead horse race story on a slow news day to matter much at all — especially when the story is literally about a horse race.

The commander's quarters, the enlisted men's barracks, the swimming pool and the restaurant provide modest accommodation and entertainment to Marana's customers and temporary workers.

The scam yielded a modest payoff: temporary shelter, a little cash, and the satisfaction of having mocked what he saw as the hypocritical world of limousine liberalism.

I wouldn't quite use the term "tossup" to describe the state — particularly if Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan are in the midst of a modest but temporary bounce — but it has become much more essential to the electoral math, and now rates as the fourth most important state in our tipping-point calculus, behind Ohio, Virginia and Florida.

For individual parents, though, these headlines connecting antibiotic use to even modest or temporary increases in weight should serve another purpose by reminding us of what we already know: no one benefits from the overuse of antibiotics.