Sentence examples for modest attainment from inspiring English sources

"Perhaps no man liked so many things and disliked so few as Walt Whitman," he wrote, "and I at least aspire to the same modest attainment".

Klemperer, a scholar of modest attainments, turns out to be a journalist of rare perception.

Globalisation has undermined the manufacturing base of most of the high-income economies, costing millions of jobs and leading to stagnant or falling living standards for a large part of the workforce, especially those with basic skills and modest education attainment.

The fact, noted by Aviv, that he comes from a family of modest educational attainment makes his swift ascent through elite academe—Harvard University bachelor's degree, UC Berkeley Ph.D. in 3.5 years followed by a tenure-track job, and tenure by 30 all the more impressive.

However, there has been only modest growth in attainment in the A-level tests, at age 18, that determines entry to university courses.

A land blighted by low educational attainment.

Low educational attainment, <12 years; high educational attainment, ≥ 12 years.

In such cases, economic sanctions often provide a policy alternative with modest expectations of goal attainment at relatively low cost, while military force involves a higher probability of goal attainment accompanied by much higher costs.

However, at a population level modest shifts in the distribution of educational attainment could be important.

Attainment levels were low.

Education attainment was generally low.