Sentence examples for modest but persistent from inspiring English sources

ND has a modest but persistent poll lead.

"We are, in our modest but persistent way, continuing to call for those changes," said the Rev. John Dear, the fellowship's executive director.

With modest, but persistent, economic growth boosting tax revenues, and with Congress and the President introducing repeated measures to trim spending growth, the deficit, by the end of this fiscal year, will have dropped by about two thirds relative to its 2009 level.

The U.S.'s policy of (modest) stimulus (relative to the size of the demand shortfall) produced a modest but persistent recovery.

This is indicated by the modest but persistent correlation of this schizotypy factor to executive dysfunction and working memory deficits [ 38- 40].

Whereas prior studies of contemporary evolution in conservation contexts have tended to emphasize modest but persistent disturbance and directional trait change (Visser 2008; Darimont et al. 2009), such conditions are not prerequisite for eco-evolutionary conservation concerns.

The torque is small but persistent.

The extended simulation methodology was associated with a modest but significant and persistent positive impact on students' prescribing skills that was additional to the benefit directly consequent on participation in the associated prescribing workshops already demonstrated in a (non-randomised) controlled trial by Coombes and colleagues [ 26].

They are in Wisconsin, not exactly the suburbs, but not the wilderness either, and they fit a Midwestern stereotype -- modest, hardworking, persistent.

"I was lucky but persistent.

Veterans should be patient, but persistent.