Sentence examples for modest experiment from inspiring English sources

When that store closed this spring, many customers assumed that the modest experiment would end, too.

It was a modest experiment — proximity was all our parents were really asking for, especially for us kids.

Basically, this was a modest experiment in Palestinian self-government, starting with the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho.

The state decided on a modest experiment: to give parents a voucher that could be used to send their children to a range of schools, including suburban public schools and local religious schools.Seven years later, the Cleveland public school system remains a disgrace.

The Countryside Management System is a relatively successful system conceived 'bottom up' as a modest experiment by site managers to solve their immediate problems of project control but has significant limitations.

California began a modest experiment 27 years ago, privatizing a portion of foster care in the belief that it would better serve children and be less expensive.

Britain has allowed modest experiments, though those have met with public discontent.

Still, they and the Federal Home Loan Bank, he said, "are no longer modest experiments on the fringes of our financial system".

In the real world, even modest experiments in acceleration drive those figures down into the low- to mid-teens.

But Medellín's social urbanism stretches way beyond the more modest experiments with participatory planning and community consultation that are now vogue in cities across the globe.

Even modest experiments in geoengineering, according to this logic, are the beginnings of a slippery slope, one that will engender a false sense of security and domesticate an idea that should have always remained outrageous.Yet caving in to this opposition would raise, rather than reduce, the dangers to the planet.