Sentence examples for modest institution from inspiring English sources

The director of this modest institution was the friend of a cousin.

And his 30-year career retrospective in 1993 was at the Neuberger Museum of Art, a modest institution in Purchase, N.Y.

A few months later, he joined her board; by 2003, he became its president, and the board decided to take its modest institution global.

Though few thinkers still bother to attack it, let alone go on proclaiming its death, the novel remains exceedingly well defended, commanding larger, more ferocious armies than such a modest institution requires.

The surprising show is at the little Museum of Biblical Art, a modest institution soon to lose its home on the second floor of the American Bible Society, near Lincoln Center on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Clever researchers at modest institutions may benefit from knowledge gained in more prestigious places.

This modest, unadorned institution is quietly growing into a contemporary art powerhouse.

St. Bonaventure, a modest Franciscan institution tucked beneath the Allegheny Mountains in Olean, N.Y., endured a bitter few weeks last spring.

But here in a crime-challenged corner of the Bay Area, a modest civic institution dedicated to the art, history and natural sciences of California has been focused on its own version of that mission for a good deal longer.

Mr. Vigtel, who died on Oct. 20 at 87, remained at the High for 28 years, overseeing its transformation from a modest regional institution housed in a simple brick building into one of the nation's most successful art museums, and shepherding its move to an architectural statement of a building designed by Richard Meier.

The Stratford Festival has become one of the great, modest Canadian institutions, by far the best place for classical theatre in North America, without ever becoming particularly fashionable or losing its small-town charm.