Shoulder robing The new pose is modesting: holding your bag in front of you because you're a) hiding a baby bump or b) your skirt keeps riding up.
In the early 1980s, even in the states where the Congress party had only a modest hold, like in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was unfailingly granted the honor of a great spectacle.
Without the exceptional skill of Regrave (who is a pleasure to watch), it's doubtful the show would have even the modest hold that it does on our attention.
Inflation stays modest, but holding interest rates too low for too long creates excess liquidity, which is now more likely to spill into the prices of homes, shares or other assets than those of goods and services.Measured by the growth in global credit or property prices, the world economy is experiencing a severe episode of inflation.
Television ratings, while modest, are holding.
Although I didn't quite have enough Euros on me to pick up that copy of "Dorian Gray," I left with the most wonderful of realizations: there is something so modest about holding a first edition.
Nine months after her staggering loss in the special election for Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat, which cost Democrats a filibuster-proof majority and re-energized the Republican Party, Ms. Coakley is pursuing a more modest goal: holding on to her current job as state attorney general.
The concert may have been a modest event, held in a small, out-of-the-way space for a devoted audience, but it was important.
A modest library held English-language biographies of Eric Clapton and Andre Agassi, and a full set of Danielle Steel.
They were the same age, had married at the same age, came from modest backgrounds, held the same views.
