If a modest ball-striker could still get the same results as the very best, I argued, that is devaluing skill.
The comet Elenin, never more than a modest celestial ice ball, has broken into even smaller pieces, NASA announced 25 October.
Mr. Ball is modest, courteous, pure, with a luxurious softness within his phrasing.
And it is on days like these that golfers who hit the ball more modest distances had better make some putts and, if possible, have bulked up the way Luke Donald did in the off-season.
Modest but on-the-ball displays of recent photography quietly appeared, and, for the first time, video.
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., no doubt aware of how sharply these actions clash with his confirmation-time vow to be judicially modest and simply "call balls and strikes," wrote a separate opinion trying to excuse the shameless judicial overreaching.
The second roll of the ball produced a modest win and a net £2 gain.
What a wonderful story it is -- an urban neighborhood with few ball fields and modest assets, sending a team to the Little League World Series.
If they were looking for mitigation it would be in the conditions, which enabled bowlers, both promisingly excellent and of more modest pretensions, to loop the ball round corners.
However, his early years as a first-class player were characterised by steady and relatively modest performances with bat and ball: in each season from 1996 to 2000, his batting average was between 20 and 30 and his bowling average was between 30 and 60.
