Sentence examples for modest in relation from inspiring English sources

Savings in future years would be higher but still modest in relation to overall spending.

"The recent disturbances in the subprime mortgage industry are modest — they're modest in relation to the size of our economy," Mr. Bush said this morning.

Therefore, this association comes to the conclusion that the income is still modest in relation to the editing and innovation effort made by publishers in recent years.

The financial resources required are modest in relation to the great achievements that beckon.

Fourth, our statistical evidence for association with birth weight in the pregnancy smokers (P = 0.014), and for the genotype × smoking status interaction (P = 0.007), is modest in relation to levels now considered necessary for robust genetic association studies (33).

"We received a relatively modest assessment in relation to an early period … we approached the Australian tax office to ask for agreement in relation to our pricing … once we reached an agreement there was a small amount that needed to be paid and we have now paid that," said Rio Tinto's general manager of taxation, Ann-Maree Wolff.

These are modest numbers in relation to the public investment in the production of middle-income housing in the past under the Mitchell-Lama program, which produced thousands of rental and co-op apartments across the state from the 1960's through the mid-1980's.

When asked about Surface, Steve's use of the term "modest" was in relation to the company's approach in ramping up supply and distribution of Surface with Windows RT, which has only been available via our online store and Microsoft retail and holiday stores in the U.S. and Canada.

7) In the nuclear run-on assay of Figure 1D, the effect of the MAF1 knockdown on CDKN1A expression appears relatively modest (especially in relation to the clear large effect in the quantitative RT-PCR analysis of Figure 1C).

Our recent analysis of mortality by country of birth shows the expected excess in comparison to England and Wales, and modest excesses in relation to the population of Scotland [ 17].

Biopsy location and cohort membership had similarly broad effects; age, gender, and disease phenotype had measurable, although less broad, effects; genotype, as represented by the NOD2 subtype, had a modest effect in relation to other factors.