Sentence examples for modest blow from inspiring English sources

Though the economy took a pummeling in the second quarter, consumers struck a modest blow for the recovery at the beginning of the third.

The VAT change on takeaway hot meat products ended a glaring discrimination against fish and chip shops, and was a modest blow against obesity.

Nariman Behravesh, the chief economist at Global Insight, said the euro zone debt crisis would "barely dent" emerging market growth, with the exception of emerging European countries, and deal a relatively modest blow to the United States.

The government shutdown has dealt a modest blow to the economy by furloughing federal workers, shutting down government-funded research and closing National Parks, hurting businesses dependent on those operations.

With a cast of unselfish character actors melding into a rollicking ensemble, "Little Ham" was a modest show that blew out a tiny house.

It was as if a lonely terrorist working in his cellar on a modest explosive device to blow up the local brewery had unaccountably found his way to the hydrogen bomb and blown up half the world.

With luck, you'll find a seat in front of a big fan, which keeps things bearable at the modest price of occasionally blowing napkins to the floor.

She blows her modest assets on travel and partying.

When we began working together in the same office, their regimen blew my modest procedure to smithereens.

The elder Mr. Cuomo stood and gave a modest wave toward the crowd, blew a kiss toward his son, gave him a thumbs-up and quickly sat down again.

Soon after Mr Clinton's failure at Camp David, for example, the Palestinians mounted their second intifada, a wave of suicide-bombings that blew away the modest store of goodwill that Rabin and Arafat had built during the 1990s.