Sentence examples for modest did from inspiring English sources

If the Supreme Court hews to established law, the only question it must answer in this case is modest: Did Congress have a rational basis for concluding that the economic effects of a broken health care system warranted a national solution?

But Steve Smith, the southwest regional director for the Sierra Club, said the proposed spending, which he called relatively modest, did not compensate for Mr. Bush's abandonment of a regulation by the Clinton administration to protect 60 million acres of national forests from logging or other development.

Mr. Pincus, who, given his wealth, had lived relatively modestly — in a world where a 2,500-square-foot 2,500-square-foot 2,500-square-foot Utahousent as modest — din an about-face upon meeting the princeSouthamptonng to one friend, who spoke on the condition of andnymity because he did not want to be identified discussing his franch in the newspaper.

Modest does not have to mean timid.

"She's very modest; doesn't read anything about herself".

"Modest doesn't even begin to describe the house," Landau recalled.

As long as economic growth is modest, don't expect much change in the skyline in most downtowns, or suburbs.

And if the last version of the Connected taught us anything, it's that the market for such devices (while modest), does apparently exist.

Our concern here is actually more modest: do these models tell us anything about how discrete geometries can be formulated such that they generate classical geometry?

Its sequestration relief for 2015 is very modest, doing little to mitigate sequestration's bite.

Being modest doesn't mean like dressing like Ellen White.