This week DFS Lab is announcing a handful of new investments — modest ones on the scale companies are used to in Silicon Valley, but the money is only a small part of the equation.
Instead the slowdown left its mark on the building's final touches — modest ones that allowed it to come in on budget.
The proposals on the ballot are modest ones.
It also makes the bit of the WTO that works best mediating between countries in trade disputes less relevant.So Mr Azevêdo should ditch the all-encompassing deals to pursue a number of modest ones covering specific industries: seek a deal on cotton, for instance, not one lumping together various bits of farming with customs facilitation (as in the Bali proposal).
Obviously not all contributions can be on that scale, but even modest ones are precious, as the following selection of museum gifts suggests.
Only a day after calling a special session and urging the Alabama Legislature to make more changes to the state's immigration enforcement law than the modest ones they had passed, Gov. Robert Bentley on Friday signed the bill into law anyway.
Page A9 IMMIGRATION BILL SIGNED Only a day after calling a special session and urging the Alabama Legislature to make more changes to the state's immigration enforcement law than the modest ones they had passed, Gov. Robert Bentley on Friday decided to sign the bill into law.
But my book, unlike the first one, would show not just elaborate rooms but modest ones, too, with the idea — in part inspired by Albert's design philosophy — that decoration does not have to be expensive to be fine.
But for many, the changes are modest ones.
Ms. Palin can presumably claim two victories, though modest ones.
Even then, the actions to be considered would be modest ones.
