Sentence examples for modest nation from inspiring English sources

We are a modest nation, but now it's becoming OK to network more and to tell people about your crazy ideas without being judged".

According to an act passed in July 2004 by the Royal National Assembly, selling tobacco products will result in a fine of US$225, a huge sum in this modest nation, and businesses caught in the act will lose their business licenses.

● Exhibitionist travelers for taking naked selfies in modest nations...shame on you! ● Airline passengers that exceed their carry-on limits...a tad selfish don't you think!

Louisiana is the only state in the nation whose public defenders are funded primarily by traffic tickets, supplemented by a modest state contribution.

The I.M.F. has repeatedly lent to a growing number of poor and modest-income nations, fought financial crises, helped the West transform Russia, and attached sweeping conditions to loans in an attempt to turn borrowers into efficient capitalists.

As a modest, if prosperous nation of just 11 million, Belgium rarely makes news headlines, yet today it has the unenviable distinction of being Europe's Jihadist hothouse.

If cutthroat economies prompt more innovation, why, Kenworthy asks, is innovation relatively modest "in other nations with relatively high income inequality and low-to-moderate government spending, such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom?" For self-evident reasons, it is difficult for a political columnist to adjudicate these warring claims.

Cambodia, which as a nation has modest Internet access, has a small but growing outsourcing company, Digital Divide Data, which has gained clients around the world in the last three years.

Aware of "the legacy of paternalism... inherited from the ideology of empire," Feldman argues that the nation-building task can be "salvaged ethically only if it is stripped down to the modest proposition that the nation builder exercises temporary political authority as trustee on behalf of the people being governed".

The United Nations sent observers and troops into the country's main cities, though their numbers are still a modest 3,800 in a nation as big as Western Europe.

Tunisia is a socially cohesive nation of modest size.