Sentence examples for modest presents from inspiring English sources

On Christmas Eve 1941, most people would have been gathering together with their families, wrapping (modest) presents or attending church services.

The gift exchange was closely watched, the Wall Street Journal reports, "ever since the British press took high exception to the modest presents the Obamas gave Gordon Brown and wife on their visit to the White House last month: a box set of DVDs, allegedly in the wrong format, and a couple of models of Marine One for the Brown boys".

Professor Chadbourn and his associates do not assume the role of reformers, for their more modest present objective is a book of exposition for the local bench and bar.

If you so desire, a modest present or a heartfelt note can help ease any lingering animosity.

Made right before Edwards's breakthrough with "Breakfast at Tiffany's," this modest production presents the challenge of wedging Bing Crosby and Fabian into the same frame, and meets it by reviving the kind of college comedies that helped start Crosby's film career at Paramount in the early 1930s.

When the CD8αα+ LNDC were isolated from the draining MLN at d3 p.i. and separated from the CD103+ and CD11bhi migrant RDC (also CD8α+, albeit at a lower level), compared to the two migrant CD11chi MHC IIhi subsets, this LNDC subset exhibited only modest antigen presenting activity comparable to that of the migrant Gr-1+ MoDC (Fig. S12A), but could present when peptide pulsed (Fig. S12B).

How many casual restaurants in modest surroundings present diners with an amuse-bouche?

It also allows producers to turn a modest profit presenting serious work by major playwrights and helps dispel the notion that Broadway is becoming a theme park for mega-musicals aimed at the tourist crowd.

These seemingly modest goals present a not-so-modest quantum leap for far IR detector technology whose progress is hampered by a number of complexities; chief among them the development of low noise readouts operating at deep cryogenic temperatures and a viable hybridization scheme suitable for far IR detectors.

The latest JRF report has also shown how far and fast benefit levels are falling below what surveys say the general population regard as a minimum standard of living: a spare pair of shoes, a one-week self-catering UK holiday, one modest birthday present.

Yet even more modest declines present an opportunity to save some taxes and perhaps refurbish your bond portfolio.