Sentence examples for modest general from inspiring English sources

Whether or not Mr Gehry's design is out of keeping with the modest general, all this fuss certainly is.

IN 1923, John Cotton Dana reflected that Newark's "modest general museum" should not try to compete with "America's greatest museums of art, history and science" on the other banks of the Hudson River.

"If the modest, general trend away from belief in God continues uninterrupted, it will accumulate to larger proportions and the atheism that is now prominent mainly in northwest Europe and some ex-Socialist states may spread more widely," they write, adding that it is possible the trend could go the other way, with belief in God seeing a rebound.

A Modest Attorney General WITH Attorney General John Ashcroft stumping the country to shore up support for the USA Patriot Act, it is perhaps worth noting that not every attorney general has viewed the role so broadly.

His English class at Stuyvesant High School in 1975 was memorable for his Irish brogue, admiration of Jonathan Swift ("Gulliver's Travels," "A Modest Proposal"), general distaste for James Joyce ("Ulysses," "Finnegans Wake"), and his raconteur-style, old-country tales.

Also in the mix are Dracula Untold, starring Luke Evans and Dominic Cooper, and family title Dolphin Tale 2. Spandau Ballet documentary Soul Boys of the Western World should prove modest in general release from Friday, but has a much better chance as a special event this evening, presented with a performance by the band beamed live from London's Royal Albert Hall.

Although they find effects in the expected direction, their size is modest in general but increases with education.

As the recorded differences in single gene expressions were rather modest in general, we performed a Gene Set Enrichment Analysis [13] to identify globally affected metabolic pathways.

The average reductions in percentage density associated with these hormonal interventions are modest, in general less than 10%.

Survival benefits in patients with advanced NSCLC with the administration of platinum-based chemotherapy are modest in general compared with BSC (Fossella, 2000a, 2000b).

Although means and percentages show markedly uniform patterns and acceptable results for the observation period, intra-subject correlation and level of agreement at different times, disappointingly is quite modest in general: High correlation (ICC/kappa ≥ 0.5) was hardly detected in any answers.