Sentence examples for modest grasp from inspiring English sources

Less than one month away from the start of the NFL season, the San Francisco 49ers' rookie defensive lineman has poor technique, minimal experience and only a modest grasp of the game's strategic element.

He and Mr. Fukuyama would quash the ambitions of Georgia and Ukraine to join NATO; more broadly, they would reduce the grasp of American policy to reflect our more modest reach.

Throughout the interview, Mr. Gore offered an uncharacteristically modest assessment of his grasp of detail.

Many English words and phrases, however, have worked their way into local parlance, and most Pakistanis with even a modest education have some grasp of the language.

The task force preparing the new manual could adopt a more cautious and modest estimation of the reach of psychiatry and its appropriate grasp.

The strongest stories are the first and last; with both, Mr Englander reveals his grasp of the small moment, the modest gesture, which can reveal unexpected beauty or something unspeakably dark.

Republicans said the Democratic plan was far too modest and showed that lawmakers refused to grasp the severity of the nation's fiscal problems.

"People on modest incomes suddenly find a cheap, calorie-packed diet within their grasp and make the most of it as soon as they can," they write.

Most systems of even modest complexity, he concludes, behave so complicatedly that they are beyond the grasp of mathematical formulas.

In UP he is seen as modest and well-intentioned, unlike the older lot, who seem jaded and grasping.

That "is within the world's grasp and the grasp of any country that chooses to make the modest resources required available," Mr. Jolly said.