Sentence examples for modest beginning from inspiring English sources

A perfectly engaging, modest beginning.

For all the glamour that surrounded her during her lifetime, Estée Lauder had a relatively modest beginning.

Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, quips that the system should be named after Mr Clinton, since much of the necessary spending was done on his watch.In theory, Mr Bush will move on from this relatively modest beginning to field an array of different defences, able to tackle missiles of every range and in every stage of their flight.

From a modest beginning a quarter-century ago, the agency has grown to employ nearly 20,000 people and control an annual budget of $7 billion.

It is also remarkable that India's main success has come not in traditional areas of exports but largely on newer industries, with a large component of high-tech, such as the information technology industry, which has rapidly grown to be a giant from a very modest beginning.

His earnings were always modest, beginning at $10 an hour as a trainee, climbing to $13 an hour as an employment director at a job training agency in Camden, and then to $14 an hour at a similar position in Philadelphia.

The establishment of ferry service between Atlantic Avenue and Whitehall Street in Lower Manhattan in 1836 brought countless newcomers, and homes both grand and modest began rising shortly thereafter.

The Owenses' other work — funding modest businesses, beginning a program to educate children about the wildlife near their villages — seemed to be paying more impressive dividends.

And Europe's hope is that it will avert any increase in emissions and lead to a modest drop, beginning with a 3 percent cut this year compared with a 2004-6 baseline.

Prior to the attacks, the buzz about the future of semiconductors market focused on modest improvements beginning at the end of this year, with a full-blown recovery starting by the second half of 2002.

Infrastructure is stretched as renters crowd into dwellings that were modest to begin with.