Sentence examples for modest independence from inspiring English sources

The new law will mean more government appointees on the board of his agency, further diluting its modest independence.

Many cities and towns across the region feature similar, albeit more modest, Independence Day pyrotechnics — but not necessarily on Independence Day.

Success has brought modest independence and a small house outside Hamburg, where she lives quietly and simply, with close friends nearby.

For other women, trading offered a more modest sort of independence, giving them a chance to build up savings separate from their husbands' accounts.

PAGE A11 A Vote Shuns Yugoslavia Montenegro, the smaller of Yugoslavia's two remaining republics, took a modest step toward independence, early results in general elections indicated.

Govind Dhar, founding editor of the Indian edition of The Robb Report, a magazine aimed at the very wealthy, said an earlier generation of Indian industrialists "came from very modest means after independence and had to work their way up amid a Gandhian philosophy of using only what you need and saving for the next generation".

With opinion polls suggesting only modest support for independence, much of Plaid's campaign was focused on alternatives to austerity.

I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

While the pension did not make Johnson wealthy, it did allow him a modest yet comfortable independence for the remaining 22 years of his life.

Langdale et al.[ 4] comment that US medical schools consider their curricula successful if students pass the national examinations, but highlight that physicians need more than the requirements of the national exam to function with even a modest degree of independence.

He made modest progress on bringing more independence and rigour to the FA's main board and helped stabilise the organisation's finances, despite the millstone of Wembley.