Sentence examples for modest press from inspiring English sources
The signing drew only modest press coverage, probably a good thing for the team and an instance of pro soccer's still-under-the-radar status in the U.S. being of benefit to the league.
The threat of pickets was not lifted until Friday, when NBC, which typically broadcasts the event, agreed that this year's modest press conference announcing the winners could be open to other television outlets.
Well, first, I can just imagine the reaction of Michael Ellam, Gordon Brown's softly spoken and modest press secretary, to live lobby briefings, and the suggestion that he or any other civil service spokesman or woman wouldn't have to change their style if they were live on TV.
A modest, press-shy fellow, Walter has quietly built Cardinal (market value: $31 billion) into the most valuable company in the U.S. healthcare services industry and the world's largest distributor of such healthcare products as pharmaceuticals and surgical instruments.
A modest, press-shy fellow, Walter has quietly made Cardinal the world's largest distributor of health care products such as pharmaceuticals and surgical instruments and in the process built Cardinal to a stock market value of $31 billion, the largest in the U.S. health care services industry.
Grateful survivors have written modest memoirs published by small presses or not at all.
It suffers in comparison with a modest, neatly pressed cake of bacalao in tomato sauce on white rice, with a cheery fried egg on top.
Meilutyte is nothing but modest when pressed on the subject.
But in the middle of this circus is a modest and press-shy company called Peer39.
Just outside the Capitol on Wednesday, the National Farmers Union and the American Farm Bureau Federation held a modest rally to press for the approval of a bill, and lawmakers appealed to them with folksy talk about tractors.
The most hopeful view of some party thinkers is that long-discussed proposals to allow a modest increase in press freedom, improve public oversight of officials and promote more democracy inside the ruling party will gain new strength.
