Sentence examples for modest context from inspiring English sources

We hope that they speak for themselves, but have provided modest context and commentary when we felt it appropriate.

Yemen is on an anti-corruption kick with journalists acquiring investigative skills and women slated to become the next Woodwards and Bernsteins, given their spunk and enthusiasm for such work, albeit within their own modest context.

It's a moment that other filmmakers have revealed, simply and brilliantly, in far more modest contexts.

His work is the kind of modest, distinctive, context-sensitive design that China's cities desperately need more of if they're to avoid becoming one giant sprawl of interchangeable architecture – punctuated only by the flamboyant architectural experiments of previous Pritzker winners.

Still pretty modest in the context of the vast education budget where it was recently announced the schools refurbishment programme has absent-mindedly gone £10 billion over budget.

And though the graph has curved up a bit in recent years this seems modest in the context of overall growth in transport demand.

Tesco knows as much, which is why its £250m plans are modest in the context of the size of the company.

Though all this adds up to a significant rebound, it is modest in the context of the stockmarket rollercoaster ride that preceded it.

Although Greece is one of the fund's biggest borrowers, the exposure is relatively modest within the context of its resources - and more importantly, as the most senior creditor, it would be the first to be paid back.

Although the actual spending cuts in the next year or two would be relatively modest in the context of a $3.7 trillion federal budget, they would represent the beginning of a new era of restraint at a time when unemployment remains above 9 percent, growth is slowing and there are few good policy options for giving the economy a stimulative kick.

That implied trailing-PE ratio of around 60 is modest in the context of other recently public technology companies.