Sentence examples for modest milestone from inspiring English sources

The Mets won three of four games from the Phillies and reached a modest milestone by rising above.500 45-444) for the first time since June 6.

That $400,000 threshold would prove to be a lucrative milestone (given the modest weekly running costs) that it would maintain until late September.

Not coincidentally, Scott, for perhaps the first time in his long, harum-scarum career, has empathetic and competent management behind him, as well as an enthusiastic, if modest-sized, new record label in Milestone.

The announcement in the works for Obama's visit to Delhi will be modest in scale – nowhere near last month's milestone agreement between the US and China to cut their carbon pollution.

Though a modest achievement, this result was nevertheless a positive milestone for the field.

The public plan is one of two key proposals -- the other being the establishment of a strong National Insurance Exchange -- that will determine whether the 2009 health reform is a true milestone or another useful but ultimately modest incremental reform.

As national sports milestones go, Haiti's is pretty modest.

As for my milestones, they have been far more modest: just good meals around the baseball circuit.

But one of the most striking aspects of his visit to Croatia, where he arrived on Thursday to reach that travel milestone, has been its muted volume and modest scale, at least by the standard of many previous papal journeys.

For a young team that began the season with modest expectations, the Hornets' dismantling of Dallas served as a milestone.

For Russia, clearing away the debt issue was a milestone in making its return to Vietnam -- however modest -- possible, the diplomat said.