Sentence examples for modest fix from inspiring English sources

The new refinancing plan is still only a modest fix.

Recapturing visas is a modest fix that should have been made a long time ago.

President Obama has come up with a modest fix for a self-inflicted political wound: his repeated — and wrong — assertions that Americans would be able to keep their health insurance plans if they wanted to under the health care reform law.

I think that as a modest fix, this is really off to a good start.

While the roof no longer leaks, the house received a modest fix-up.

For his part, Judge Smith has proposed some modest fixes.

This situation, if addressed immediately, could be eliminated with modest fixes.

And we could not in good conscience ask our elderly parents to take on this kind of debt, given their modest fixed incomes.

Highway construction and disability benefits are both financed by trust funds that are almost out of money; that could spur modest fixes to both.

As Packer notes, the mostly modest "fixes" that Ornstein and Mann recommend are reasonable and, in a few cases, novel, but they suffer from a problem of circularity: the very élites they call on to provide leadership in cleansing American politics are themselves too compromised, or simply no longer trusted by a jaded public, to play that role.

His chief proposal-the freezing of dividends for three years-sent shares in the City into a nose dive, and though aimed at the rich, was a cruel blow to the thousand of small investors who have been trying to paddle along on modest fixed incomes.