Sentence examples for modest intervention from inspiring English sources

Proposals ranged from "modest intervention" to reconstruction work "on an epic scale".

Most analysts believe that a modest intervention would not be enough to secure lower borrowing costs for Spain.

The bank may have intended this to signal its resolve, but markets seemed to have interpreted the modest intervention as a sign of weakness, creating pressure for a bolder move.

In addition to the 42 schools assigned to outside managers, the panel ordered more modest intervention at 28 others: 9 will become independent or charter schools that might themselves seek a corporate partner, and the remaining 19 will be reorganized but will most likely stay within control of the district.

Currency traders said that they perceived hints of modest intervention to cushion the decline by the Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, which acts through state-controlled commercial banks when it does intervene so as to camouflage its activity.

In conclusion, this study indicates that a relatively modest intervention, intermittent stimulation of a single whisker, if timed appropriately, can have the dramatic effect of preventing the cortical consequences of ischemia.

Even modest interventions could start to close this gap.

All-out wars have a poor record, but modest interventions of the kind President Obama is talking about in Syria have a more successful (though still mixed) history.

Mr. Shedd, a 31-year intelligence veteran, seemed to suggest that modest interventions were unlikely to make a significant difference at a time when Mr. Assad's army has been reclaiming territory on the battlefield, with the support of Iran, Russia and Hezbollah, and when the opposition is bitterly divided, while among the rebels the Islamists are resurgent.

Such experimental research is rare at present, but illustrates how relatively modest interventions can greatly reduce cheating behavior (e.g., Dee & Jacob, 2010; Shu et al., 2011).

Even modest interventions can have lasting impact.