Sentence examples for modest firm from inspiring English sources

Prior to parsing conflicting accounts of the life of the Prophet Muhammad, he writes: "No one has ever denied that Muhammad was tall, dark-eyed, handsome, fragrant, lustrous, well mannered, soft-spoken, modest, firm of handshake and purposeful of stride".

The modest firm has the distinction of being the first VC to get into early stage seed investing through its Quick Start program, "We pioneered and successfully delivered on the "venture seed investor" model since 2006," Zachary tells me, "We were the first and now most other firms have attempted to clone our program when they mocked it".

While WPP would remain strong in media-buying even without Tempus, Havas badly needs the acquisition for its weak media-buying business to rival the global giants.Why this commotion over a modest British firm?

In the 1944 volume of his diaries published as The Selective Ego, Agate records how he muttered, "Stick to your fretwork, young man," before asking "Don Sinden" to recite Wolsey's farewell from Henry VIII and finding evidence of promise: "Enough height, an attractive head, something of the look of young [Henry ] Ainley a good resonant voice, vowels not common, manner modest yet firm".

After severing in the U.S. Army during World War II, William Moses Kunstler attended law school at Columbia University under the G.I. Bill and following graduation formed a modest law firm in suburban New York.

You don't need to use as much pressure as you do with guitar strings; a modest but firm amount is enough.

Small firms are beginning to find modest amounts of capital through crowdfunding platforms.

They see benefit fraudsters brought before the courts and small firms harangued by the tax man for modest VAT bills while giant firms and high net worth individuals know it's unlikely they'll be prosecuted for not paying all their taxes.

So even modest-sized firms can easily spend upwards of $1m every time a bug is found that threatens their security.

Anatsui is an almost preternaturally calm man, reserved and modest, but also firm in his views.

India's Suzlon Energy is one of the world's five biggest makers of wind turbines; 15 years ago it was a modest Gujarati textiles firm.