Frustration nearly boiled over in the 82nd minute when Maxi Pereira shot high and wide from outside the box rather than pushing a modest pass to the onrushing Forlán.
But even among a high percentage of these salts-of-the-earth lives a terrible reluctance toward even modest passes at social justice, a suspicious regard of the mind as an instrument of worth, a view of the world extending little further than the ends of their own noses and only a vague notion that they are small quills writing a large history".
The apology, and the relatively modest payments, passing through Congress because the wrong done to Japanese-Americans was accepted as a violation of values embraced by all Americans, not just special pleading by one small group.Efforts by African-Americans to make similar claims for restitution have failed for a variety of reasons.
Barden and the other Newtown parents had been lobbying the Senate for days, walking the halls of the Capitol trying to get a modest bill passed.
As for Medicare, the president is willing to make relatively modest savings by passing more of the cost of the programme to drug companies (by haggling for lower prices) and to the rich (by making them pay more for their coverage).
Peete responded with a modest 136 yards passing, a touchdown and error-free play in helping the Panthers to a 10-7 victoverover Baltimore on Sept. 8. Another start against Detroit led to a more impressive 31-7 victory last Sunday and a more definitive statement from Fox that Peete would be the Panthers' quarterback for the foreseeable future.
But while nostalgia for a simpler time when the president wasn't coddling white supremacists or firing off unhinged tweets at 5 AM, and instead was passing modest but progressive laws is perfectly understandable, it's not a strategy.
Unable to flush the migrants out of the reeds, she hiked back up the bank and into the modest riverfront neighborhood, passing a white dog on a chain who sometimes alerts her that migrants have arrived, unless his owner sets out food to distract him.
In Queens, on Staten Island, on Long Island and at the Jersey Shore, many families have clung fast to a modest coastal lifestyle, often passing bungalows or small Victorian homes down through generations, even as development turned other places into playgrounds for the well-to-do.
The Senate left town last week without passing a modest bill to spur small-business lending.
