Sentence examples for modest it does from inspiring English sources

The network's expenses are relatively modest: it does not produce the games it televises — paying only satellite access fees — and sends announcers to only two of the six games it shows each week.

That the terms of the deal are implied to be modest, it doesn't look like a home run for Grab Media's backers.

Although the strength of the relationship is modest, it does demonstrate an association over an 18-year period.

Since the loading dose of fluid is relatively modest, it does not seem unreasonable to think this intervention could be delivered in the two to three hours before surgery for patients admitted on the day of surgery.

Its ambitions are modest, and it doesn't pursue them with excessive zeal, which may be why, improbably, it feels like a winner.

The off-campus garage apartment that Houston quarterback Case Keenum and his wife, Kimberly, share is so modest that it does not have a full number in its mailing address.

The pied wagtail may be quiet and modest, but it does have one unusual habit.

But as a means of retirement savings for those on modest incomes it does have a lot to recommend.

"Americano" is a film of modest ambitions — it does not strive for greatness or novelty — but it demonstrates unassuming self-assurance and an admirable willingness to take formal and emotional risks in pursuit of a complicated and elusive truth.

This motion is quite a modest measure (it doesn't come close to proposing the sort of full initiative and referendum system that they have in places such as Switzerland and California), yet it appears to be causing people consternation.

While the approach requires only modest investment, it does need a large commitment from the top.