Sentence examples for modest interventions from inspiring English sources

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.

Bridget Terry Long '95, now a professor of education at Harvard University, presented research showing that even modest interventions — for example, helping high school students and their families to fill out financial aid forms — could have a dramatic impact on college access.

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.

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

Harvard went for a radical overhaul disguised as a modest intervention.

By then, northern white rhinos were endangered, but extinction loomed far off and seemed preventable with just a modest intervention.

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

Do Not Track has emerged from the current skirmish between consumers and advertisers, but it is a relatively modest intervention that does little to shift the underlying incentives that have driven increasing tracking and aggregation of information about consumers.