Now Greilinger is at the Olympics, trying to help Germany pull an upset in Tuesday's qualification match and reach the quarterfinals — Krupp's modest but difficult-to-achieve objective for his team at the Vancouver Games.
In the meantime, the cost of excessive focus on an unlikely goal could consign to history any opportunity to lock in an agreement for stabilising at 550ppm, a more modest, but still difficult, international outcome.
The aim, at this stage, should be the more modest, but still immensely difficult, one of a relatively decent, relatively long-term, modus vivendi.Time for warrior and guerrilla to tradeThe talks need not be formal.
Such modest but consistently coordinate effects are difficult to be identified by gene expression analysis.
The great merit of "Lincoln" is its dramatization of the modest yet difficult practicalities behind monumental deeds.
Mr. Jernmark's take is at once more modest and difficult, the taste of a Sweden proud of its traditions, its larder and the bounty of its sea, fields and lakes.
More important, as the current generation in their 50s retire, the workforce is likely to shrink dramatically in almost all European countries, making even modest growth difficult.
Not impossible, but difficult.
Mr. Pryor's approval ratings remained decent as of late last year, enough that we consider him a very modest favorite under difficult circumstances, but the race will be a good litmus test of whether the Democratic Party can hold onto seats in the inland South.
The effects of nutrition are potentially important in the longer term, but are typically modest and often difficult to observe in the short term.
