"The impact on people in the suburbs will be very modest," said Daniel L. Doctoroff, the deputy mayor for economic development.
To the surprise of many observers, Wu Bangguo, who has had a modest profile as a deputy prime minister directing the reform of state enterprises and is a protégé of Jiang Zemin, was given No. 2 ranking in the party elite.
"Find me a cold, hungry Gazprom employee who works in a modest office," joked Pyotr Karpov, former deputy head of the state bankruptcy service.
Britain is finally set for a sustained period of growth but the recovery will be modest by historical standards, Charlie Bean, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, has said.
Or it was the deputy prime minister's manner friendly, modest, striving for the right note of realism and defiance concerning the calamity that has befallen his party.
Dail deputies are targeted to a modest extent, sharing in the cuts to public sector pay.
Modest and loyal, he was bumped up to deputy prime minister in 1942 and surprised everyone by trouncing the war hero in the 1945 general election.
Perhaps the most practical comment came from Brian Hatch of New York, who, as deputy mayor of Salt Lake City, helped develop a modest light-rail system and an area west of downtown before the 2002 Winter Games.
China, on the other hand, will have a more modest presence, with a handful of chief executives and a deputy prime minister, Zeng Peiyan.
We want to be the biggest energy company in the world," Alexander Medvedev, Gazprom's deputy head, has said of his company's modest ambition.Most European governments have been careful not to alienate Russia.
