Sentence examples for modest fuel from inspiring English sources
Mild hybrids like Honda's may offer only modest fuel savings, but they are considerably cheaper to make.
And with this modest fuel, we built a small fire that lasted until dawn.
This campaign of obfuscation and intimidation included doctoring Congressional testimony on the health effects of climate change; ordering the E.P.A. to recompute its numbers to minimize the economic benefits of curbing carbon dioxide; and promoting the fiction that the modest fuel-economy improvements in last year's energy bill would solve the problem of carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.
Using a combination of population data, canopy cover measurements, and forest simulation models, we show that modest fuels treatments in the Sierra Nevada would not be expected to reduce canopy cover sufficiently to have measurable effects on owl reproduction.
No one could have predicted this street-racing, "all about family" series would become a global phenomenon when it started with 2001's modest fuel-injected undercover cop thriller.
That's the sort of struggling performance expected of a barebones economy car, not a big sedan that carries a modest E.P.A. fuel economy rating: 16 m.p.g. in the city and 24 m.p.g. on the highway.
Due to only modest fossil fuel resources, Austrian energy supply depends to about 70% on imports (Anderl et al., 2007).
Mr. Obama has made it clear that he wants G.M. to produce small, fuel-efficient cars with a modest carbon footprint.
Other immigrants have unlicensed corner shops or hawk their wares on the streets: their modest success fuels jealousy.
Mr. Caro shows how Johnson's impoverished childhood and modest education fueled his sense of inferiority and class resentment vis-à-vis the Kennedys and how it stoked his rage for social justice.
He'd scrap the modest new fuel-efficiency standard passed with rare bipartisan unity in Washington last month and give Detroit a $20 billion fund for energy "research" (not to be confused, he claimed, with a bailout).
