Sentence examples for modest dent from inspiring English sources

The ball hit him in the helmet, left only a modest dent, and Pettit stayed in the game.

After all, the new bill will, at best, make a modest dent in the rate of foreclosures.

The $616 million would put only a modest dent in Mr. Cohen's net worth, which is said to be nearly $10 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Reasonable estimates suggest that the Fed's new policy is unlikely to reduce interest rates enough to make more than a modest dent in unemployment.

But if the technology catches on and is used in millions of vehicles, it could make a modest dent in fuel demand.

In his own budget speech, India's finance minister, Jaswant Singh, proposed a modest dent in the subsidies poured into both food and agriculture by announcing an increase in the price of fertiliser.

The brass witness plate indicated a detonation pressure in all cases except for the 3.71 mm gap where only a small dent was found indicating the more modest pressure associated with deflagration.

The department as a whole is now 94percentt white and almost entirely male, so department officials expect that this academy class, the first to include participants in the special program, will make a modest but significant dent in the force.

Add to that sum interest charges stretching back more than 10 years and the final tally could put a modest, but not insignificant, dent in Apple's colossal offshore reserves.

We were both full-time students with minimum-wage jobs, and even a withdrawal from the bank of mum and dad couldn't put a dent in the modest wedding ceremony we'd envisioned.

GDP is expected to rise by a modest 3% this year, not enough to dent unemployment, which afflicts perhaps a third of the workforce in South Africa.Arguably, investors, once again cautious after the turmoil in neighbouring Zimbabwe, would be more forthcoming, and growth faster, if the labour market were not so protected.