Sentence examples for modest in practice from inspiring English sources

The United States is taking some first steps -- bold in rhetoric, still mostly modest in practice -- to prove to its Asian allies that it intends to remain a crucial military and economic power in the region as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw to a close.

The use of audit and feedback to improve clinical practice has been studied across a range of health care settings, with systematic reviews demonstrating only modest improvements in practice [ 27, 28].

32 In contrast, the traditional highly passive view of online consumers individually receiving broadcast messages from a static website and acting on them has shown at best only modest evidence of success in practice.

Crazy!" At a rehearsal session in a modest Hollywood "practice space", a reinvigorated Def Leppard are in ebullient mood.

The study demonstrates that implementation of an asthma CPG worksheet in a tertiary paediatric ED resulted in modest changes in clinical practice, mainly by increasing clinician adherence to the guidelines.

A 7% reduction in spending every year may sound modest, but will be eye-watering in practice.

In 2009 and 2010 new architects Sheppard Robson made "relatively modest changes" which seemed innocuous but in practice dumbed the design down considerably.

Although the benefits of father-daughter mating appear modest relative to random sib-mating, in practice they are compensated for by a reduction in generation time resulting from a mature and known fertile sire.

Compromising hijab to conform to western ideals often leads to the general belief that other modest practices in Islam are unessential - societal ailments - and are then looked upon negatively by Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

But in practice, the results were modest compared with the expectations.

For most of those years, Mario Cuomo was a work-obsessed lawyer with a modest practice in downtown Brooklyn.