Sentence examples for modest one of from inspiring English sources

His own convictions in this matter were far from modest: "One of the few gifts fate bestowed upon me is a capacity for truth insofar as it depends upon myself".

The Holy Grail is not to turn them into professional institutes (as two Harvard professors proposed in another FT article the same day) but the more modest one of 'doing better social science'.

The Department of Transportation also puts a price tag on a human life when deciding which road improvements are worth making, although it's the rather more modest one of $3 million.

The pope, who intends to visit a Roman prison on Sunday on a Holy Year day dedicated to prisoners, last week asked governments worldwide for leniency toward inmates, saying, "A reduction, even a modest one, of the term of punishment would be for prisoners a clear sign of sensitivity to their condition".

Instead of doing something prudent -- like renting a Ring production or doing a modest one of their own -- the Los Angeles Opera went out and spent a jaw-dropping $30,000,000 on Achim Freyer's new production.

The aim is thus the relatively modest one of identifying, describing, mapping and aligning a set of relevant approaches, as a prelude to what would be a further, new project in conceptual framework-building.

Elsewhere a smattering of young players, including Newcastle's Young Socceroo defender Curtis Good and West Ham striker Dylan Tombides will harbour hopes, albeit relatively modest ones, of first-team action.

But the transgression here — a modest one, more of etiquette than of ethics — is not the religious content of this oratory but that the coffeehouse preacher disturbed other people at a place where patrons commonly wish to engage in quiet conversation or read the paper or think their own thoughts, not be an involuntary congregation for an ad hoc, overcaffeinated revival meeting.

But it's most arresting in the hands of a writer who isn't too modest — one possessed of a fearless, at times, fearsome, ambition.

In simpler organisms such as worms or flies the family is a modest one, consisting of one receptor (Let 23) and one ligand (Lin 3) in Caenorhabditis elegans, and one receptor (DER) and four (Spitz, Gurken, Vein and Argos) or possibly five (including Keren, a very recently described gene) ligand genes in Drosophila melanogaster.

It is simply one of many tragedies in the world today — and a fairly modest one in terms of lives lost.