Sentence examples for modest obscure from inspiring English sources

He began praying at the Dar Al Uloom Al Islamiyah mosque, a more modest, obscure venue, in the semi-rural flatlands of northwest San Bernardino.

Yet the box scores and the modest role obscure Harden's true worth.

But progress bogged down again over the fate of a modest and obscure benefits program called Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Haggling over the modest and obscure benefits program had tied up the trade pacts for months, pitting Democrats concerned about the impact of competition on American workers against Republicans eager to increase foreign trade but loath to increase federal spending on another aid program.

Every so often, a modest picture from an obscure place makes a big splash in the relatively small international art-film pond.

WHILE the Cannes International Film Festival is certainly the best place to see the latest offerings of the global cinematic elite, it also provides unparalleled opportunities to seek out the obscure, the modest, the emerging and the odd.

"My dream was to have a Malaysian spring that would be unique in the sense that we would do it through votes, not in the streets — a peaceful transition into a vibrant democracy in Malaysia," Mr. Anwar said in an interview at his modest office in an obscure neighborhood outside Kuala Lumpur.

This could be due to the fact that other environmental factors, and/or other early life infections had a much larger impact on health in this resource-poor, semi-urban, community, which obscured more modest effects of the congenital infection; or through interaction did not reflect in the overall outcome indicators so far.

The higher and more variable baseline levels of neutrophils in SH rats may also have obscured any modest CAP effects, and the time to necropsy may have been too short to induce the migration of neutrophils in the lung.

"Limits" pretends to a degree of certainty so exaggerated as to obscure the few modest (and unoriginal) insights that it genuinely con tains.

That great triumph that will forever define him has tended to obscure a relatively modest club career that is only now reaching heights that better become him.