Sentence examples for modest proposition from inspiring English sources
It is a modest proposition.
Fontana is a more modest proposition than the Blue Lagoon, Iceland's most famous thermal baths, just outside Reykjavik.
Now comes a more modest proposition: Name 10 restaurants abroad that would be worth boarding a plane to visit, even in these fraught days.
"Paramount Records was founded on a modest proposition: produce records as cheaply as possible, recording whatever talent was available," Third Man said at the time.
A MODEST PROPOSITION With that research in hand (and much more available on Wikipedia under "hand gesture"), let us address my traffic problem: Why is there no universal hand sign for "thank you"?
Aware of "the legacy of paternalism... inherited from the ideology of empire," Feldman argues that the nation-building task can be "salvaged ethically only if it is stripped down to the modest proposition that the nation builder exercises temporary political authority as trustee on behalf of the people being governed".
(Another modest proposal.
Such modest effects concur with the proposition that, because impulses may be inhibited, habit need not prompt action.
Proposition 2 is a modest step that deserves voter support and extension to other states.
Proposition 30 is really quite modest.
On the surface, Raine's proposition appears to be a modest, even innocuous, one.
