Sentence examples for modest but reasonable from inspiring English sources

The correlations are modest but reasonable (ranging between 0.1 and 0.3) and are statistically significant with the exception of the EPL indicator for regular workers.

Moreover, the diploid species within L. ovalifolium complex have imperfect but reasonable morphological differentiation but genetic co-variation with species identity was relatively modest.

We are not talking about a life of luxury and ease, but about modest comforts and reasonable expectations: a decent job with health benefits and vacation time, a loving family, a house of your own.

That is a very modest and reasonable recognition of Christmas holiday working.

Many react with fury at every modest and reasonable step to alter that.

Tuna tartare, more modest and reasonable at $9, was a better choice.

She described the act as "very modest, very reasonable," the kind of bill that "women — more than men, even — support".

Mr. Obey said the conditions that Democrats had linked to the spending measure were "modest and reasonable".

But reasonable people can differ.

This unwillingness to credit the viability of even the most modest and reasonable of improvements will be the death of us, this obsession with clinging to the current state of things even as they rot.

Too modest and reasonable to lay claim to a halo, you may rely, "Of course there is room to improve; nobody is an angel!" You may then graciously accept the few, seemingly trivial criticisms that follow.