He said: "This modest arrangement does not seem remotely odd, merely sensible".
"In the context of the British [and every other western] government's official policy to foster closer cultural and trade ties with China this modest arrangement does not seem remotely odd, merely sensible".
So far, this modest arrangement seems to be working rather well, at least in terms of mobilising attention and resources.The most important activity, though, is taking place at the national level.
"You can't be very good at what you do unless you are specialised".Moreover, the benefits of full-blown mergers (instead of more modest arrangements, such as alliances) ought properly to be stacked up against their costs.
And they sing, mostly, about togetherness, love and what one song calls "carnalismo," in modest arrangements that usually revolve around Ms. Monte's acoustic guitar and Mr. Brown's percussion.
Compare the massive jaws of a wolf, for instance, with the more modest arrangements of the mouth of a hare; or look at the great ridges along the uppermost part of the skulls of some species — a mountain lion, for example, which has a sail-like arrangement known as a sagittal crest, to which the jaw muscles are anchored to give it even greater crushing power.
Because "Take Me to the Alley," his latest album, which The Times' Mikael Wood praised for its "cozy sentiments with modest, small-scale arrangements," is one of this year's most sophisticated listens.
Throughout the album, which the singer produced with Kamau Kenyatta, Porter matches these cozy sentiments with modest, small-scale arrangements — mostly keys, bass and drums — that sound shaped more by the gigs he's played over the last three years than by any desire to experiment in the studio.
Though his letter was largely free of negativity, Mr. Buffett used the hiring of Mr. Combs - and his relatively modest compensation arrangement - to take a swipe at the hedge fund industry.
A tropically warm greenhouse, it hosts jungle foliage, a large pond and modest waterfall arrangement – and thousands of butterflies that could not be more eager to land on your sleeve and dazzle you with their kaleidoscopic colours.
Some booths look truly elegant, like the eclectic orchestration of mostly Japanese art and artifacts in the merged booths of Galen Lowe and Axel Michels, or the much more modest and focused arrangement of Japanese hanging scrolls and ceramics at Bachmann Eckenstein.
