Several years ago, on the first day of one of my introductory astronomy courses, I mentioned a modest fact: Under a dark and transparent atmosphere, with an unobstructed horizon and keen vision, one can see at most about 3000 stars.
After transforming the Thurgood Marshall School in Seattle, Wright moved to Philadelphia to work on the district's single-sex programs, and the results were rather modest, a fact Wright attributes to working both with middle- and high-school students and with less-engaged teachers.
On the other hand, in the case of two other nitrogen-related genes (Loc_Os02 g50240 and Loc_Os01 g48960), the reduction in diversity in landraces and elite varieties was more modest; in fact in the case of Loc_Os01 g48960, the extent of diversity in landraces was nearly the same as that in elite lines of O. sativa (Additional file 5, Figure S1).
Fabulous idea; glorious — though modest and practical — fact.
He is always described as unassuming and modest, but, in fact, Higgs can be waspish.
That makes the rates charged on the loans to states and municipalities look swingeing today, though they were in fact modest by the standards of the day.
But, if the thesis that he has put forth is correct, there is room for only modest expansion: The fact that the United States is the world technology leader puts constraints and limits on redistribution at the top.
Many scholars, especially Hungarians, argue that Romanization in Dacia was, in fact, modest and that the later Romanian population living north of the Carpathians was not native to the region but migrated there from south of the Danube.
You will not find hundreds of channels on the TVs; modest televisions, in fact, were installed only after repeated requests from guests.
In fact, modest tax increases have resulted in economic growth.
