Sentence examples for modest not to from inspiring English sources

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The idea is for each side to make a move which is sufficiently modest not to inflame its own hardliners - and for that move to be instantly rewarded with a response from the other side.

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These observations may relate to the fact that the extent of osmotic load is relatively modest, not leading to more marked changes in volume or urinary output, with compensatory mechanisms contributing to maintaining normal volume.

Yet in the city, which you will never discover because cities are hideous for people who won't wear shoes, it's easy to park, lovely to nudge around, small enough to dart in front of things, modest enough not to annoy people, shiny and bumper-car-ish enough to make you feel your youth, red enough that you won't lose it.

Whitley is modest enough not to suggest his own group, but I will do that for him.

The Redskins, meanwhile, have a much more modest goal: not to be the most embarrassing team ever.

I was modest enough not to attribute the event to my own irresistible personal attraction, and I felt that I had now grasped the nature of the mysterious element that was at work behind hypnotism.

The vocal performances are lively without being showy — Craig Ferguson is a particularly fine Owl — and the film as a whole is decidedly modest, seeking not to reboot or update the Hundred Acre Wood, but rather to brighten it up a bit and get it back to how it used to be.

I was even getting dressed as a religious woman just to blend in, to be modest, and not to attract too much attention and I'd walk the mountain up and down and talked to different people who would be visiting the mountain.

Even before the awkward "clarification" of their plans for budget cuts in 2010-11 (modest not "swingeing"), that failure to dispatch Mr Brown was discomforting the Tories.

Ultimately, the party ought to have, but doesn't, as it's frontrunner someone who not only demands low taxation and limited government, but also advocates modest, not overly-transformative reforms to the existing healthcare system.

Lifestyle intervention (diet and exercise), behavioral management, and drug therapy for patients with morbid obesity deliver a degree of weight loss, but because the benefit is modest, not long lasting (6 months to 1 year at best), and carries considerable side effects, this method is unattractive to patients.

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