Sentence examples for modest item from inspiring English sources

For the first time the government has included in the institute's budget a modest item ($625,000) for such repatriation efforts.In this section Hostage, but to whom?

A cut of five percentage points would cost about $19 billion a year -- reducing federal receipts by less than 1percentt annually -- a very modest item in a $2 trillion federal budget.

Then, on May 2, Mitchell Fink of The Daily News included a modest item in his gossip column about the mayor's dining in an East Side restaurant with an unnamed woman.

Extremely modest items sold brilliantly for what they were.

One of the most modest items, and one of the best, is the wild-mushroom soup.

And even when the objects are less than spectacular — Hunter could borrow only modest items, nothing requiring special climate control or heavy insurance — they are rich with information.

To see how it all works, I bought and then "lost" a few modest items, including a "Star Wars" umbrella and a pair of red women's underwear the approximate size of an apron.

Amid the Vienna fancy goods, bric-a-brac, cloaks and costumes, smoking jackets, porcelain dolls and Alexandre kid gloves were more modest items for customers whose desire outpaced their means.

But he wasn't as aware of things as Julia was, and when she returned home she had to revise the list he'd made for the police and State Farm, enumerating the strangely modest items that the thieves had taken, the list oddly long.

A modest item-total correlation was also observed for item Q14 ("I was seen promptly when I arrived for treatment").

The report's assertions make common sense: for drug cartels, government seizures are merely a modest line-item in their budgets; the "maximum" - meaning, farcically optimistic - estimate of drug seizures runs to 25% of total supply.