Sentence examples for modest member from inspiring English sources

Mr. Wyman, once the most notoriously modest member of the Rolling Stones, used a different tool to minimize the irritating patina of his own fame.

While Ferrell knows no boundaries on-screen, frequently dropping his pants or appearing naked, in his private life he seems the more modest member of Hollywood's much-touted "Frat Pack", a group which includes Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn among others.

Bert Kelly, a free trade Liberal member of parliament from 1958 to 1977 and the original author of the Financial Review's Modest Member column, would be turning in his grave if he knew what was being carried on in his name.

When he writes about the emblematic flower of the first world war, the poppy, for example, or assigns a similar role to the plant that was christened London rocket during the second: "The plant that arrived to grace the ruins, apparently in prodigious quantities, was a modest member of the mustard family with golden-yellow flowers in the shape of a tiny cross".

The document that eventually emerges from the convention which got down to work this week in Brussels and which is compared by some of its less modest members to the gathering in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced the American constitution should reflect the fact that the elites no longer speak for Europe.

The people in attendance were everybody from the highest elites to groups of far more modest members of ancient Egyptian society.

The United Nations has begun deploying a modest, 4,200-member peacekeeping and military observer mission, to which the United States is contributing $60 million but no troops.

Besides condemnation of violent crackdown of protestors by the security forces, the only practical step taken was the modest agreement by member states to suspend export licenses for military equipment that could be used for internal repression.

Its goal, says its owner, Paul Sorchy, a chiropractor, is to provide a modest setting where members can feel comfortable exercising.

The group toured in Europe, where it had modest success; band members paid their rent with the royalties that continued to trickle in from "Popular".

The latest survey by the National Federation of Independent Business shows a modest uptick in members' optimism, although more of them still plan to cut employment than to increase it.The good news for small firms may also be showing up in the jobs data.