Sentence examples for modest grounds from inspiring English sources

That, too, gives modest grounds for hope.

Although these gardens run to 40 acres, the principles are much the same for more modest grounds.

Kevin Daly of Goldman Sachs thinks there are modest grounds for optimism: the sectors that shrank most this time, such as oil and gas, are notoriously volatile, whereas those that grew, such as services, may be seeing sustainable improvement.

While he admires much about the laws of armed conflict, he does so largely on the modest grounds that they can serve "as tools of practical moral judgment in moments of extreme pressure".

The roles of the Bush era seem set to be partly reversed: where Mr Blair mongered Mr Bush's wars, it will be Mr Obama who sells financial reform to a fractious international community (though he will plainly sell nothing unless he thinks it in America's interests).So there are modest grounds for hope that, with others, Mr Brown and Mr Obama might accomplish something.

Nevertheless, there may be more modest grounds for hope.With their recent announcements at the UN General Assembly, the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers narrowed the gap with the United States, which imposed sanctions on both countries after they tested nuclear weapons earlier this year.

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

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.

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.

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.