Sentence examples for modest failure from inspiring English sources

"Hey Little One," the title song of a 1968 album, was a modest success that seemed like a modest failure at the time, since it was the single that directly followed "By the Time I Get to Phoenix".

Although our study sample size was modest, our failure to confirm the association between p, p′-DDE and IgA observed previously by Vine et al. (2001) is unlikely to be due to limited statistical power because we saw no evidence of a trend that would have been strengthened with greater precision.

The results derived from our simulation study suggest that such asymmetric profit sharing models can only resolve relatively modest market failures unless the programs also manage to attract highly competent investors who are able to produce above average gross returns in market failure areas.

With systolic heart failure, modest physical exertion causes pain, weakness, or other symptoms indicative of inadequate cardiac performance.

However, these modest levels of failure do not necessarily translate into reduce fruit set or damage to development (Ariza et al. 2011, 2012).

They are a modest correction against failures in algorithmic prioritisation on the indelible web.

A positive effect of ARV therapy on clinical parameters was observed, but the impact on CD4 recovery was modest and virological failures were frequent.

"You're bound to experience success in its highest form and success in a modest way and sometimes failure".

But the results of those efforts, many of which were primarily defensive, have ranged from modest success to spectacular failure.

Even before the awkward "clarification" of their plans for budget cuts in 2010-11 (modest not "swingeing"), that failure to dispatch Mr Brown was discomforting the Tories.

Republicans want that number to be as high as possible to make a more modest gain seem like failure; Democrats push for a lower figure to make a meager rise look formidable.