Sentence examples for modest attainments from inspiring English sources

Freeman's father was an otolaryngologist with a practice of modest attainments.

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

Henry Stephen Kemble, (born Sept. 15, 1789, London died June 22 , 1836, English actor of popularity but modest attainments, a member of the famous Kemble theatrical family.

Even coaches of modest attainment can add value by delivering such information.

"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".

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.

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.

A land blighted by low educational attainment.

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