Sentence examples for modest buying from inspiring English sources

He has done some modest buying in of Sara Lee shares; the number outstanding has shrunk by 7% over the past two years.

This week, Mr. Nader started showing a television commercial (with an authentic old politics touch, his staff refused to say where the modest buy was taking place or how much was spent).

That's enough to make them a modest buy now, but keep maturities short and credit quality high in your portfolio.

But last week a more modest bond buying effort failed to halt the European slide.

The group, which has endorsed Mr. Lazio's Democratic opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said it would spend $50,000, a relatively modest amount, buying time on cable stations with sizable audiences of women.

When he started selling weekend houses in 1996, he said, prices in Sullivan County (the heart of what has traditionally been called the Catskills) were so low, he was able to help Manhattanites of modest means buy second homes.

"Frankly," she added, "the price was so modest, we bought it just as a lark.

An incredible number of modest Parisians bought their cars as status symbols, which they can rarely operate.

The ad will run on broadcast and cable stations in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia over the next two weeks, at a cost of $520,000, a very modest media buy.

In Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs, Francesca Millican-Slater beguilingly unravels the story behind a modest postcard bought in a Totnes junk shop for 50p.

THE DANGER IN MEDICARE VOUCHERS The reform law would help working-age people on modest incomes buy private policies with government subsidies on new insurance exchanges, starting in 2014.