Sentence examples for modest move from inspiring English sources

Some people in Congress want to tighten penalties on counterfeiters, a good but modest move.

There is a modest move towards means-testing: from 2007, richer old people will have to pay higher premiums for certain doctors' services.

The modest move extends a pattern this week: even with plenty of earnings news from big companies, the broader market has shuffled between minor gains and minor losses.

"Why stick with the status quo when we would get so much credit for even a modest move?" A Pentagon spokesman said it would be "premature" to comment before the review was completed.

DALLAS — While Jose Reyes flitted through the halls of the Hilton Anatole on Wednesday, giving a succession of interviews in a Miami jersey after being introduced as a Marlin, the Mets announced a comparatively modest move of their own.

In a modest move intended to bolster the peace process and the West Bank economy, the Israeli government on Sunday increased by 5,000 the number of permits allocated for Palestinians working inside Israel.

Yet these are modest moves.

As in the past the government here has swerved between crackdown and modest moves of conciliation.

Such modest moves did little to pacify brokers who were now being besieged by furious customers.

The modest moves on Monday followed a rough week that ended with a sharp pullback Friday.

Mixed economic reports held the equity markets to only modest moves on Friday, though gains for the week were strong.