Richard Williams The perfect modern footballer: fit, strong, quick, versatile, modest, hard-working and clean living.
Although reputed to be modest, hard-working and personable in small groups, Ban is a clumsy communicator.
In the final version of the Senate bill, Mr. Wyden, of Oregon, won a modest, hard-fought victory.
She later described her parents as modest, hard-working people who never imagined their children would go to college and could not afford it if they had.
Rarely seen without the smile that is now emblazoned on billboards and buses around the country, Adams is modest, hard-working and friendly.
Mugging the nation's grandparents by depriving them of some of their modest, hard-earned Social Security retirement benefits is hardly an answer to the nation's ills.
Buyers still worried about the economy but unable to resist bargain prices went back to Wall Street late in yesterday's session, giving stocks some modest, hard-fought gains.
"The evident affection that the filmmakers bear toward Smith's novel, and toward the odd, spirited people who inhabit it, gives the film a modest, hard-working appeal," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times.
Imelda Staunton must surely be in contention for major awards for her performance as Vera Drake, the modest, hard-working cleaning lady in 1950 who has a hidden life.
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Political and legal advances, such as a 1958 Supreme Court decision ruling that the gay magazine ONE was not obscene material, were modest but hard won.
