Sentence examples for modest place in from inspiring English sources

Govt. officials took their modest place in the background.

The revivalists even succeeded in securing for Irish a modest place in the country's educational system.

Amanda, a singer, composer, and teacher, was the survivor, finding a modest place in the London music scene.

Currently, he and his wife, Irina, are renting a modest place in Greenvale, about three miles northeast of Roslyn Heights.

Japan specialists are likely to find the survey data — and Japan's modest place in the global supply network — more revealing than surprising.

But in the record of 20th-century stage and film history, his modest place in the Beatles' movie canon pretty much defined him.

There were also shows at London's October Gallery and at two modest places in New York: Skoto Gallery and David Krut Projects.

It would be preferable, he suggested, if Guy were "buried or cremated and a memorial of some sort, however modest, placed in the gardens of the society".

While that may seem a tad presumptuous for a modest place installed in an off-the-beaten-track storefront, it does telegraph the ambitions of Patrick Sinchak, the proprietor.

Pursuing imperial vigour and electoral advantage in Africa and the Levant, French leaders and intellectuals such as Bernard-Henri Lévy have only demonstrated, through their fiascos, the urgency of finding a more modest place for themselves in the world.

His pub is just what the name implies: a modest place with 14 TV screens in the main bar and three more in the restrooms, so hardcore fans don't miss any action when nature calls.