Sentence examples for modest official from inspiring English sources

Bought luxury property despite her modest official salary.

Some had asked how the family could afford Bo Guagua's education on a modest official salary.

It has not gone unnoticed that many civil servants live in luxury that doesn't square with their modest official salaries.

Coalition generals came to see Karzai as the "go-to" man in the region; his influence belied his modest official title.

He was rusticated for a year due to his poor academic performance at Oxford and many wondered how the family found the money for his education - Papplewick and Harrow and then university - on a modest official's salary.

That sounds impressive, but their influence over global financial markets is more modest, because official reserves account for only around 5% of the world's total stash of financial assets.

And regional parks, which depend on stay-at-homes for their business, have actually enjoyed a modest upswing, officials of those parks say.

The increase so far is modest, but officials worry that the trend is long term and that the implications may be costly.

The effect on consumer prices will be modest, Agriculture Department officials said last week, and Ocean Spray, a grower cooperative that accounts for 70percentt of cranberry production, says it plans to reduce prices despite the production limit.

With the relatively modest cut, officials at the Office of Science's national labs won't have to make the huge layoffs they'd been planning.

"This technique is used to cause psychological discomfort, particularly if a detainee, for cultural or other reasons, is especially modest," a Justice Department official observed in 2005 during the course of an internal debate about retaining or abandoning the torture techniques.