Sentence examples for modest news from inspiring English sources

On Friday, at an uncharacteristically modest news conference in London, Pacific Century introduced its new television and online service.

The same day, each of Mr. Ferrer's three main Democratic rivals held his own carefully scripted, modest news event.

In more modest news, Mr. Katché also has his own album to promote, a self-titled affair featuring his softly burnished melodies for a band with the trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, the tenor saxophonist Tore Brunborg and the pianist James Watson.

Owen Van Natta, the chief executive of MySpace, came to the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week bearing some modest news: MySpace will expand its selection of music videos and make them more prominent in its search results, profile pages and on a "New Music Video" hub.

However, given the importance of this information, we will continue to publish a modest news section and selected editorials.

Modest good news.

So the cutbacks in this downturn, analysts say, should be modest — reassuring news for the economy.

The continued growth here is probably also related to some modest good news in politics.

But this modest encouraging news was outweighed by data suggesting that the German economy would slow later in the year and might even decline.

Overall passenger numbers are up slightly, but that modest good news masks big falls both in the shires and the cities, where numbers have fallen by a tenth and a fifth over the past decade (see chart).

One bit of modest good news for NBC was a slight uptick for its reality competition show "The Sing Off," which managed to climb to a 1.8 rating from a 1.7 the week before.