Sentence examples for modest making from inspiring English sources

His actual proposals for a "growth pact" to go alongside the German-inspired fiscal treaty are modest, making it easy for Ms. Merkel to accept most of them.

The service is "complex to install on customer sites, costly to distribute by satellite and the audiences are very modest, making it difficult to justify the continued level of investment," Mr. Duffield said.

Its power draw is modest, making it possible for a device the size of a smart phone to project a 90-minute movie on one battery charge.

The technical means used were, as often as not, modest, make do, even crude.

Most are modest, made of brick or siding, and topped by pitched roofs.

Their relations with young men are chaste, modest, made legitimate by playing out here among the believers where everybody can see and understands the world the way they do.

In our current context, Willy's dreams of love, dignity and community through modest work make him a deluded loser.

Many of the same workers also receive modest wages, making them more likely to work through their illness.

Chung and her husband earn a modest living making bamboo baskets, which they sell in the local market.

[C4.] Stocks Post Modest Gains Stocks made modest gains as investors snapped up some beaten-down shares.

Spain and most of eastern Europe rejected modest proposals made by Brussels to introduce quotas on a small initial scale.