Sentence examples for modest meeting from inspiring English sources

This was not exactly mission control in Houston but a modest meeting room at the Open University's centre in north London.

In a ruined city famous for its warlords and anarchy, this modest, humdrum meeting of Mogadishu's new Chamber of Commerce feels like a milestone - proof that Somalia's capital is slowly returning to a loose approximation of normality after two decades of spectacular self-destruction.

"It was a modest, wood-paneled meeting room lined by chairs and couches for host and visiting delegations.

Braugher does his best with the stiff Simon, bringing what he can to the modest story of meeting Abraham Lincoln (the greatest moment of his life) and pumping what life he can into a section where Simon is singing and slapping his thighs while preaching during the Passover celebration.

For my part, I made two modest contributions to the meeting.

She wore a neat, modest headscarf for our meeting: I had suggested a coffee shop near the station.

The group's Facebook page currently lists 20 members, and Mr. Haywood kept his attendance expectations for the meeting correspondingly modest.

After Mr. Weidenfeld was finished recording Mr. Johnston, he headed back to his modest office for a meeting with representatives of a well-regarded podcast.

The two have still not met in person; Mr. Turo said that for an investment this size, and the modest risk involved, a meeting was not necessary.

The meeting's modest results included an agreement to send ambassadors to each other's capitals, improve military patrols along their border and determine how Venezuela would pay about $800 million in debts to Colombian companies.

At that meeting a modest proposal to create a zoning district that would allow mixed-use building, a business on the ground floor with apartments above, evoked howls of outrage from Huntington citizens.