Sentence examples for modest expectation from inspiring English sources

— NICOLE FLENNAUGH has a college degree, office experience and the modest expectation that, somewhere in this city on the eastern lip of San Francisco Bay, someone will want to hire her.

For the uninitiated, this scene on the fringes of Europe contradicts even the most modest expectation of how the continent should look in 2015.

We still don't expect too much, but this team can exceed modest expectations if they keep playing for each other.

Few had expected a rapid return to full employment, but even modest expectations for jobs growth have not been met.

Now I have modest expectations.

Other analysts had more modest expectations.

They were modest expectations, and Rasner had modest success.

Some investors, like James D. Floyd, already had relatively modest expectations.

Mr. Raskin said he had modest expectations for Aetna.

That shocked Leeds, even given their modest expectations.

They are ordinary people with modest expectations, modest even in what they notice and remember and imagine.