Sentence examples for modest in order from inspiring English sources

Finally, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Bernard Kent suggests small investors keep direct ownership of foreign stock modest in order to report foreign taxes of less than $600 on a joint return.

2007: It snapped up Coley Pharmaceutical of the US for a relatively modest $164m in order to boost Pfizer's threadbare pipeline of new drugs.

Even during a period of economic expansion, the government can sensibly decide to run a modest deficit in order to finance education, scientific research, and other areas that the private sector refuses to invest in.

Apple is slowly transforming from being a superstar stock to one that pays a fair dividend at a modest rate in order to make existing investors happy.

One can only assume that they have chosen such a modest vehicle in order not to shame their less affluent neighbors.

Instead, they have identified smallholder farmers as a vast network of under-utilized and under-capitalized growers who require only modest inputs in order to double or triple their output and begin selling for export as well as expanding domestic markets.

But Greedies themselves depend on having Modests around in order to be viable.

Most forecasters have predicted a modest decline in orders and deliveries of business jets this year.

Modest changes are in order but wholesale transformation to a system run by reluctant and inexperienced GPs dependent on private advisers could split the coalition.

If they did anticipate the GOP backlash, and embraced modest rail plans in order to soften a blow they knew would come, that's even worse.

And a modest tax increase in order to pay for pre-K education, probably not doable in any case because it requires state approval, is not the first step in turning New York City into an urban kibbutz.