Sentence examples for modest handful from inspiring English sources

When this correspondent last met him, in 2010, Na Kham Mwe wore an old vest and was escorted by a modest handful of heavily armed comrades.

The modest handful of pine nuts in this recipe round out what might otherwise have been an otherwise bland of a plain pastry case, while also making it richer, and crumblier, than ever.

Crowd loved Song 2. American fella behind me said 'these guys are gonna be big!' twitter.com/jonnot/status/… — Jonno T (@jonnot) April 13 , 2013Heading back towards the smaller Mojave tent, a huge crowd dispersed from a triumphant alt-j set to reveal a modest handful left watching NME hopes Palma Violets.

China, on the other hand, will have a more modest presence, with a handful of chief executives and a deputy prime minister, Zeng Peiyan.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Eight years ago, Mahmoud Karzai was running a handful of modest restaurants in San Francisco, Boston and Baltimore.

The pessimism spread to the broader market, limiting the modest gains of a handful of manufacturing and retail stocks.

Traditionally, they were no-frills events that offered a handful of modest prizes to mostly local residents.

Despite their formal equality before the law, however, newly emancipated slaves received only modest protection, from the handful of mission stations, against exploitative and often brutal conditions.

After more than 11 hours of meetings, Mr. Obama emerged Thursday from his first summit meeting with a handful of modest concrete commitments.

There are a handful of modest restaurants in the immediate area, and a single main commercial strip that boosters liken to a New England village.

Set to focus on producing a handful of modest genre pictures a year, it's being demoted to little more than what it started out as – punished, you might say, for its ambition.