Sentence examples for modest estate from inspiring English sources

How different that is than this modest estate of Versailles.

After she died, her modest estate was used to create the fellowship.

Superficially the ballyhooed Wrightsman auction had little in common with the dispersal of Mrs. Wetterhahn's modest estate.

We were told that her modest estate would be divided evenly among her three children, with one exception.

After his mother's death, Martin flies to California to sell the house and settle her modest estate, with help from the chatty, chain-smoking Linda.

He had agreed to accept the management of Claudius's modest estate, would find an apartment for him and see that he met people".

And the not-so-wealthy fretted that the tax was going to hit more modest estates next year.

It applied to that Tottenham team, even though they were earning £200 a week, living in semis: private houses on modest estates.

Because only 2percentt of American estates are taxed, Republican calls for repeal reeked of the party's proclivity to reward its wealthy donors, even at the risk of alienating individuals whose more modest estates would never be taxed.

There is a modest estate-tax deduction, calculated as the discounted present value of the future payout going to the charity.

Leaving out Illinois and North Carolina, 19 states and the District of Columbia currently impose their own estate and/or inheritance taxes, and some of them tax fairly modest estates.