Sentence examples for modest enterprise from inspiring English sources

"It's a very modest enterprise," he said.

ST. PAUL — A chamber orchestra might seem by definition a modest enterprise.

Yet it is a modest enterprise compared with the teaching-hospitals trust, whose 13,000 staff make it the city's second-biggest employer.Now David is taking on Goliath.

Of course, the Bronx Museum will not be able to sustain a free model without continuing support, given that it is a relatively modest enterprise.

There are a lot of marginalised people among us, and an outreach strategy that does not succeed in reaching those people – the marginalised – would be a pretty modest enterprise.

While it's got numbers — both in terms of members and album sales — it's a modest enterprise more interested in reviving the gentle country-rock of the 1970s and 1980s than in inflating that sound so it can fill a big room and, by extension, support a big ego.

People resist the comparison because businesses seem such modest enterprises.

Modest enterprises like Avalon Partners have been a major engine of growth for the city.

Indeed, in writing the ban, little thought seemed to have been given to the country's 800 water-pipe tea houses, most of them extremely modest enterprises owned by ethnic Arabs.

The Vinnitsa photo came to represent something else, too – a reminder of how warily you must tread when you try to enlist the past, however good your intentions, and indeed however modest your enterprise.

That would be too modest an enterprise for today's far more significant and ambitious Whitechapel Gallery, so now it is The London Open, still an open-submission show, but now any artist across London can enter.