Unlike most European royalty, Belgium's monarchy still has modest but, on occasion, critical political powers.
The Fed's strategy of slowing an overheating economy by raising rates gradually might prove just as risky for America and so for the world economy.Since last summer, the Fed has raised interest rates five times, on each occasion by modest quarter-points that were well-flagged in advance.
The album includes "Darlin' Kate," an elegy to Kate McGarrigle of the McGarrigle sisters, who shared vocal harmonies and songwriting with Ms. Harris on "Stumble Into Grace" and many other occasions; its modest banjo and piano backup recall the McGarrigles' parlor songs.
This rigorous protocol contributed to the power of the study to detect change in PWV over the modest interval between measurement occasions.
In New York, a far more modest proposal has become the occasion for high-profile soul-searching and head-scratching by the mayor and the City Council speaker.
A modest event to mark this occasion also took place in Abeche, the capital of the eastern Ouaddai region.
This summer's refurbishment of the museum's East Gallery, where four full-length portraits by Whistler (1834-1903) normally hang, has occasioned a more modest celebration: "Portraits, Pastels, Prints: Whistler in the Frick Collection".
I have lived in Ecuador on three separate occasions in the modest house of Teresa Alvarez, the motherly and industrious Executive Director of El Centro Médico de Orientación y Planificación Familiar (CEMOPLAF), a leading family planning center in South America.
Alternatively, there are occasions when using a modest number of specific tests is effective as was done in [ 29].
But it is also an occasion to celebrate much more modest gifts that have created a hospital with transformational power.
I thought the occasion called for something more modest and intimate, that he should have let his victory speak for itself.
