Sentence examples for modest ground from inspiring English sources

Xavier Mosquet, co-leader of the Boston Consulting automotive practice, said in a statement that electric cars "will gain only modest ground" by 2020.

However, the latest nationwide tracking polls, published on Friday, suggest that Mr Kerry gained little from the final debate, and Mr Bush even made up modest ground.

In South Korea, where the word "Confucian" has long been synonymous with "old-fashioned," people like Mr. Park have recently gained modest ground with their campaign to reawaken interest in Confucian teachings that stress communal harmony, respect for seniority and loyalty to the state — principles that many older Koreans believe have lost their grip on the young.

Hardware stocks gave up some modest ground amid nervousness ahead of earnings by industry bellwethers Intel intc and Motorola mot.

As a result of these various newsworthy items, WFMI moved modestly higher, WINN gapped lower, UNFI lost modest ground and WMT continued to shift sideways, stifled by the 44 level, which marks the top of a bear gap created on Aug. 14 following a narrowed fiscal-year outlook.

It also provided a modest ground to infer that among children and adolescents in Nigeria, neglect and delinquency are different points of a spectrum.

"With a prostitute, there is sex and it's over," said Mr. Doriguzzi, speaking from the veranda of his modest ground-floor apartment.

On a recent Monday afternoon in the East Village, the 32-year-old upstart photographer Todd Selby — more commonly known as the Selby — was entertaining a guest in his modest ground-floor studio.

"Everybody's calling and saying 'I don't know what I want to buy, I just want to buy something,' " said Ginger Hipsley, half of the support staff in the modest ground-floor office that overlooks a shopping center.

The small congregation, which had moved out of the lavish main sanctuary and into a modest ground-floor space, could not possibly maintain the enormous structure, which was near collapse.

Dr David Pollens is a psychoanalyst who sees his patients in a modest ground-floor office on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a neighbourhood probably only rivalled by the Upper West Side for the highest concentration of therapists anywhere on the planet.