Sentence examples for modest focussed from inspiring English sources

This past weekend, for the third year in a row, the owners of the upstate Basilica Hudson performance venue collaborated with the curators Brian Deran and Brandon Stosuy to mount Basilica SoundScape, a model of the modest, focussed music festival.

Even though they are modest — focussed on making background checks that are already required more efficient, and on narrowing the loophole that allows unlicensed individuals to sell firearms (often online or at gun shows) without conducting any background checks on buyers — they show that something other than weary capitulation to the gun lobby is still possible.

By Sasha Frere-Jones September 19, 2014 This past weekend, for the third year in a row, the owners of the upstate Basilica Hudson performance venue collaborated with the curators Brian Deran and Brandon Stosuy to mount Basilica SoundScape, a model of the modest, focussed music festival.

What the president did propose in his address was modest, focused more than ever on domestic matters and the growing concern about the economy.

Rather than do something modest — focused, say, on tailoring — or even skipping a season until a new designer could be hired, the house took the risk of exposing inferior work.

Instead it would be more modest, focusing on what would be "commercially successful", in the words of Sonny Saleh Ibrahim, an engineer who spans both eras of the company's history.That has meant building up a niche business making parts for foreign planes.

So far, the most successful attempts at de novo interface design have been relatively modest, focusing on small proteins and yielding micromolar affinity (20, 81).

The effect on diabetes risk was initially modest, but when Dr Small focused on a more specific population - women who inherited the gene variant from their mothers - the effect grew.

Garin says the company now prefers a more modest strategy, focusing on locally themed, locally staffed productions.

"Born Rich," however, is a modest, narrowly focused hour of television that manages to be quite fair and remarkably interesting.

In Belgium, the tournament attracts modest interest, focused on Pieters, only the second Belgian player ever to take part.