Sentence examples for modest party from inspiring English sources

The day before, Britain's Tony Blair came with a modest party of 15 to deliver his speech.

Although the supporters are unlikely to be out in force, there will be a modest party at the Cambodian embassy on Saturday to greet the athletes.

Ms. Holloway selects the works, makes little labels for them and usually holds a modest party in the lobby to inaugurate each exhibition.

That's why you won't find it on Egyptian TV or radio, even if the shrill metallic notes of mahraganat are ubiquitous at weddings in working-class neighbourhoods, at massive block parties, from the speakers of taxis and tuk-tuks, or modest party boats on the Nile.

While most of us make do with simply hanging in there, cookery schools across the country are noticing a rush to learn kitchen skills from modest dinner party cooks to those in search of a cordon bleu career.

It's a fairly modest birthday party, but one that offers a few insights into the artist's process, as well as tracking the Demoiselles' journey from Picasso's legendary Bateau-Lavoir studio to MOMA's collection in 1937.

He spoke with a visitor at a modest new party branch on the third floor of a shabby Tunis office building, the rooms still echoing and empty but for some tables and chairs, the white walls dirty and scuffed.

And the feast, its featured attraction, changed from modest block party to major moneymaker, in which even the dollars taped to the San Gennaro statue went somewhere other than to the local parish, Most Precious Blood.

Marketers, promoters and artist managers say that a modest branded party at South by Southwest costs $10,000 or so, but that major events with top talent can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

He has a modest dinner-party definition of his work - "coming up with gadgets so that you can fake a person into thinking they're in an artificial place" - but few recent innovations have had such consequences.

In 1960, Castro launched the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, neighborhood watch groups given the job of implementing social welfare projects and natural disaster assistance, looking out for the elderly and organizing modest block parties.