Sentence examples for modest hand from inspiring English sources

True, the Government and its advisors have played their modest hand with some dexterity in creating a buzz about the sale and the idea that it's 'cheap'cheap

Table 2 Pearson (r) and Spearman correlation coefficients for each mesh   Pearsonr Spearman ρ Strength Camel 0.835 0.829 High Elephant 0.585 0.654 Modest Hand 0.715 0.707 High Horse 0.713 0.700 High Overall 0.712 0.723 High.

The consistent pattern of antibiotic usage, endemic MROs in PICU and modest hand hygiene clearly provide strategic focuses for intervention.

Here is a modest proposal: hand this book to FTSE 100 chief executives, private equity partners and hedge-fund managers in lieu of their annual bonus.

In addition the book itself has an inscription on folio 1r "written in a modest book-hand apparently of the later twelfth century" recording that it was found in the translation.

Anonymity and pseudonymity might be invoked out of fear or diffidence: in 1555, one punishment for treasonous writings was the loss of the right hand; "modest" women authors were long identified simply as "A Lady".

In a statement to MPs after abandoning plans to reform the Lords last month, the deputy prime minister also rejected out of hand modest changes to the upper house proposed by the former Liberal leader Lord Steel of Aikwood.

Absent the forceful leadership and ambitious vision of Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterrand and some of their other predecessors, Europe's heads of state stumbled away from the negotiating table after five days of talks with a disappointingly modest treaty in hand.

In the section devoted to "The Tale of Genji," the 12th-century novel that is among Japan's greatest contributions to world literature, for example, modest books and hand scrolls are grouped around a pair of Edo-period screens by the 16th-century master Kano Soshu like small craft around a magnificent ocean liner.

Both splints demonstrated modest improvements in hand function.

Follow up data indicated modest maintenance of hand washing after lunch.