Sentence examples for modest but useful from inspiring English sources

17 Prescription from a general practitioner for unsupervised home based aerobic exercise (predominantly walking) with follow-up structured counselling, based on the theory of planned behaviour, 36 and using behavioural principles, provided modest but useful benefits from a relatively brief intervention.

There is evidence that folic acid has a modest but useful role in the primary prevention of ischaemic heart disease and concomitant use of aspirin, and possibly other antiplatelet therapy, is an explanation for why this is not evident in the results of the randomised trials.

On-demand service with smaller aircraft will find a modest but useful niche within the industry.

Meanwhile, two modest but useful tax incentives, also scheduled to expire on Dec. 31, should be renewed.

Fees produced €1.2 billion for German universities in 2008, a modest but useful sum compared with their total spending of €36 billion.

Appearing just as farm workers are striving to rebuild their union, Rothenberg's book should play a modest but useful part in exposing the underground economy that produces much of our food.

Bush administration officials assert that the modest, but still useful, American role is part of a larger effort to shift peacekeeping duties to the Europeans.

Pulling this trick off, however, required the deployment of 2,000 virtual spray ships, and also interfered with rainfall patterns in a way that would not be appreciated by the world's farmers.Such an armada might not, however, be necessary to produce a more modest but still useful effect.

In the end, a full-color HD signal at 60FPS can be sent with less than a watt of power, and a more modest but still very useful signal — say, 720p at 10FPS — can be sent for under 80 microwatts.

(Ryan has worked in the public sector most of his adult life, but apparently had a modest — in Romney terms — but useful amount of family money to work with).

The 20% reduction in volume may seem modest, but it could prove useful in devices that control and dispense tiny amounts of fluid, such as ink-jet printers and "microfluidic" drug dispensers that continuously pump medicine into a patient's body, says Edward Furlani, a physicist with Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York.