Sentence examples for modest limited from inspiring English sources

The appetite for solutions in Britain has tended to be modest, limited to feeding the sectional interests of minorities without others noticing or minding too much.

Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, said "some modest, limited criticisms of the president" might be expected from a candidate Clinton.

In the final silence after this statement, I sense an unspoken refutation or qualification, which is the fact of Silvestre's life, a hard-working, responsible life built, in the most modest, limited, practical way, on love.

Styling changes from WRX to STi are modest, limited to minor adjustments to the fascia and exterior trim pieces, plus the fitting of a prodigious rear wing.

Over 200 years of legal, government sanctioned discrimination can hardly be remedied with 30 years of modest, limited, hiring goals and timetables.

Similarly, despite reported efficacy as single agents in several preclinical models, clinical benefit with HDAC inhibitors in several other solid tumour malignancies has been modest, limited mostly to disease stabilisation.

The change in physical activity by the questionnaire was modest and limited to a subset of the DXA group, with limited power due to sample size.

Corbyn wants the reshuffle to be modest and limited in scope.

But the characters themselves are bit players, whose insights seem almost intentionally modest and limited.

But, thanks to the nature of the Internet, they are likely in future to be modest, and limited in scope.

The second problem is that, modest and limited though these proposed reforms are, they will be strongly resisted by Number 10 and its agents, the whips, who will strain every nerve to avoid any loss of power.