A foiled 2006 terrorist plot brought modest concern about radical Islam.
The stock market rose on Monday as investors looked toward an earnings season expected to show modest growth despite concerns about the health of the economy.
All he has is a lingering scandal back home and concerns about putting on modest but uplifting Winter Games in 2002.
Of course in a period where there are serious concerns about deflation, a modest increase in the inflation rate would be a good thing.
Higher energy costs pushed the overall measure of producer prices higher in August, the government said Thursday, a modest increase that many analysts said reduced concerns about the possibility of deflation even as the economy continued to recover.
Billy Hunter, the embattled head of the N.B.A. players union, announced a modest list of reforms Wednesday — measures intended to rectify concerns about his stewardship and perhaps save his job.
Liberal nationalism has also brought to the fore more modest, less philosophically or metaphysically charged arguments grounded in concerns about justice.
The report, issued every year since 1976, showed modest gains in some areas, but leaves plenty of concerns about the speed of progress more than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
The Chinese have made modest concessions in recent years, but mostly because of internal concerns about inflation and economic dependence on exports.
