Sentence examples for modest purpose from inspiring English sources

It had a more modest purpose, Mr. Kirkpatrick said.

His modest purpose: work out of the slump by next season, which at least two rounds on this daunting layout might accomplish.

For this modest purpose, it would be sufficient to construct one plausible version of contractualism on which the optimific principles cannot reasonably be rejected.

The theoretical framework described above clearly rests on a number of simplifying assumptions and, although some of them are crucial for the purpose of constructing measures of skill mismatch that can be implemented empirically, some serve the more modest purpose of simplifying the model.

"Or, at the very least, they would tell that the evidence could come in, but for very modest purposes".

Although some of the articles we identified could have been placed in more than one category, or in categories not used, we believe our approach to be valid for the modest purposes of this survey.

Unlike the digital effects of today's films, which routinely use effects to try to reproduce reality, or fantasy-reality, those of the "Westworld" era were much more modest in purpose.

The modest all-purpose parlor of 1839 Wylie Avenue (Michael Carnahan's slightly off-kilter, scrubbed interior is perfect), is where we meet 285-year-old Aunt Ester, here fleshed out for the first time after being mentioned in several earlier works.

That probably means a modest dual-purpose bag will work fine for you — maybe even a messenger bag that can moonlight as a computer bag.

That premise is more controversial, and that purpose less modest, than either of them may sound.

Except that the money can readily serve that purpose in modest disguise and does.This brilliant scheme has overwhelmed American election spending.