Sentence examples for modest operations from inspiring English sources

The state's five refugee agencies are modest operations.

By almost any measure, such modest operations stand in sharp contrast to the sweeping international eavesdropping operations carried out by the National Security Agency.

Conoco, which has operated in Russia nearly a decade, has one modest operation, a joint venture with Lukoil in Timan Pechora known as the Polar Lights Company, which produces about 13 million barrels of oil a year.

It is a modest operation.

Enter the California Motorcycle Company, a modest operation in Gilroy, Calif.

It has always been a modest operation, catering to tourists and nautical buffs.

As Mr. O'Hara puts it, his modest operation is "at the base" of the mining pyramid.

Housed in a nondescript industrial garage, this appealingly modest operation has a small exhibition organized by its director, Mike Solomon.

It's a modest operation, with two screening rooms for program testing and two focus-group rooms.

He presided over the company's growth from a modest operation, generating less than $4 million a year in revenue, to one with revenue of more than $680 million.

Mizrahi was a teen-ager in the early aughts, when Juicy vaulted from a modest operation in the San Fernando Valley to an inescapable global juggernaut.