Sentence examples for modest ones that from inspiring English sources
Instead the slowdown left its mark on the building's final touches — modest ones that allowed it to come in on budget.
The changes are modest ones that probably will not hurt the quality of the Police Department.
This work can be a rich source of on-the-ground research and insights that could fuel a tech- and design-driven process to build new interventions (even small, modest ones) that would improve both the efficiency of the court system & the stakeholders' experience of it.
The point of the bar graph was to demonstrate that an expenditure benefiting a presidential whim dwarfs modest ones that benefit the nation as a whole.
His design was replaced with a cheaper, more modest one that treated a hockey rink like an afterthought.
Twenty-seven yeago ago, when California became just the second state to enact a law establishing charter schools, state leaders framed the experiment as a modest one that would allow only 100 schools at first.
The move by the United Talent Agency — best known as the home of comedians like Vince Vaughn and Jack Black, filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan and television producers like Dick Wolf and David Chase — amounts to a bet, albeit a modest one, that Web video is on a growth curve similar to that of cable television a generation ago.
Scalia and Thomas would like to see the federal government's role in regulating citizens' lives reduced to the modest one that they believe the framers envisaged.
In which he comes to the defence of prolific novelists in the New York Times: "My thesis here is a modest one: that prolificacy is sometimes inevitable, and has its place.
Ivan Krastev, a Bulgarian academic, has written that for ordinary voters the accession era felt like a powerless time when they could "change governments but not policies".Perhaps a better argument for defending enlargement is a more modest one: that EU membership has proved more useful than the pessimists think, despite its limits.
Instead, Mr. Touré said, he was focusing on a more modest plan, one that could be a step toward an exchange: the creation of a real-time database detailing the flow of traffic on the world's major communications networks.
