Sentence examples for modest positions from inspiring English sources

It also includes many with more modest positions, like Thomas H. Marshall, director of public works in Delaware, Ohio, who has a doctorate in environmental ecology.

Given his trashing of most of their competitors, he may be faulted for not specifying the exact amounts of what he describes as his "modest positions".

Many of the young men who began the Civil War in relatively modest positions as midshipmen, ensigns or lieutenants ended up commanding ships within just a few years.

And some of those poached from the private sector held fairly modest positions in their previous firms, suggesting that the age-old need to balance Kenya's tribes in the cabinet's make-up is still paramount.

Gurus hold modest positions in Wal-Mart, which was up 3% last week to $53.10, but didn't trade it last week.

So it's possible to check a fund's biggest holdings on its Web site and miss its modest positions in an array of different Ford Motor bonds, recently declared junk by Standard & Poor's.

We sought to respect the sensitivities by running the story and pictures in a modest position inside the paper".

When he assumed office in 2007, our country held a modest position in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index.

His victory gives him a modest position in one of the lower rungs of China's layered government, far below the National People's Congress.

But that very modest position on the Knicks' masthead does not necessarily correlate to Ford's current importance for the team's basketball brain trust.

With the president's directions in hand, Mr. Obama's Justice Department came back on March 13 , 2009 with a more modest position than Mr. Bush had advanced.