Sentence examples for modest credentials from inspiring English sources

Its modest credentials include a 29-year-old debutant director, a budget of just $30m and a cast of unknowns.

The air was crisp (54 degrees at kickoff), and Harrington, a five-year veteran with modest credentials, was equally so.

Big Brown comes off a Derby win of historic proportions and takes an effective drop in class against a field with very modest credentials.

With 12 horses, many with modest credentials, the race appeared wide open on paper, and that is how it played out on the racetrack.

Although Mr. Obama's vice president, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, is among the party's most respected experts on foreign policy, the president-elect himself has more modest credentials in military affairs.

He was a provincial senator with modest credentials, propelled into the prime minister's job by an electoral upset and seen as little more than a puppet of the praetorian guard surrounding President Jacques Chirac.

A cleric and former nuclear negotiator with only modest reform credentials, Hassan Rowhani stirred little enthusiasm when he announced his candidacy in April.

The choice between supporting Graeme Swann with an out-and-out spinner such as Monty Panesar or an all-rounder with more modest spin-bowling credentials in Patel offered appealing flexibility.

Judge Asch, who wrote eight books, was modest about his academic credentials when he began his public career as a member of the State Assembly in 1952, and he seemed almost apologetic about them when interviewed a few years later, after he had won election to a Democratic Party leadership position in the Bronx.

However, Trott's batting credentials were modest: he had scored only one half-century in 29 first-class innings.

D.F.W. found Garner the ideal mix of instructor and explainer, a teacher with the true credentials of the modest and informed, an authority "not in an autocratic but a technocratic sense".