Sentence examples for modest direct from inspiring English sources

Paradoxically, even modest direct donations threaten the family's eligibility for crucial public benefits.

Hence their enthusiasm for the big conversation about the "unsustainablity" of the NHS and their solution of saving it with modest direct charges.

Further studies showed that the HIV drugs containing protease inhibitors had only a modest direct impact on the malaria parasites.

Especially when vaccines confer modest direct protection, the indirect and overall effects of widespread vaccination may affect the cost-effectiveness of vaccination.

The industry needs to communicate the modest direct contribution of packaging to the environmental footprint of packed goods and the success already achieved in reducing the environmental impact of packaging.

His modest, direct approach won support from party workers and the electorate, recalls Elpida Ziouva, a civil servant who works for the Athens assembly: "No-one had a bad thing to say about him," she says.

And even Mr Abbott's modest direct-action plan now faces its own hurdles in the Senate.

The compositions and arrangements were as modest and direct as her voice.

The members have the curiosity of Radiohead, but they relate it in a more modest and direct way; they are unworried about playing straight-ahead rock when it seems suitable.

While most players put up with it gracefully, Clijsters is that rare athlete who genuinely seems to want to connect with whoever is speaking with her, who's modest and direct and thoughtful, and who in person projects the same warmth and enthusiasm she displays on court, which is not always the case with players whose public image is sunny.

The levels of several miRNAs also showed modest but direct associations with several standard clinical measures of lung health such as forced vital capacity or gas exchange efficiency.