Sentence examples for modest or poor from inspiring English sources

Women had modest or poor awareness of preconception health issues.

With the exception of avoiding smoking, alcohol and illicit drugs, women's awareness of preconception health was modest or poor.

However, none of the regimes tested conferred complete protection of animals and antibody stimulation was variable and generally modest or poor (Ni Eidhin et al., 2008).

Families bought homes they couldn't have afforded at higher interest rates; speculators bought properties to flip; people with modest incomes or poor credit took out mortgages designed for marginal buyers, such as subprime loans, interest-only loans, and "Alt-A" loans.

Most of the men and women who have changed the course of American business over the past 200 years, and so qualified for inclusion in "Masters of Enterprise", have come from modest or even poor backgrounds.As immigrant children, Andrew Carnegie and David Sarnoff knew what it meant to miss a meal.

Modest sample sizes or poor precision in the QRS measurements may have hindered those earlier studies (Havlik et al. 1980; Russell et al. 1998; Smith et al. 2009).

Dominique Ceaux, who worked with Mr. Hollande at the governing council, said Tulle "is a modest, fairly poor city, but it reflects the values he cares for".

And as she pointed out, sensibly, most jobbing models are women from modest to poor backgrounds who have taken this one ticket out of unpromising beginnings and aren't particularly deserving of ridicule.

In contrast, the stability of other SOPT indices was modest to poor, ranging from.58 for span score to.12 for perseverations.

Laboratory studies performed on admission showed modest inflammation, poor nutrition, and elevated levels of total bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, and γ-glutamyl transferase.

In contrast, there appear to be modest to poor links with the voluntary sector and social services.