Sentence examples for modest push from inspiring English sources

A modest push and the piece slowly revolves, its blue, rust and chrome chasing each other as if on a miniature carousel.

He said Iraq was not, as some strategists inside and outside the government presumed, a "house of cards" that would topple quickly if given a modest push.

On my test vehicle, even a modest push on the gas pedal caused the front wheels to spin when the road was damp.

The taming of Rolf Breuer Out of kilter Land of the three mistakes A horse, not a camel Contumacious fetishism Banking on the unbanked Those stingy Americans Falling out of favour Reprints Related items Foreign aid: Those stingy AmericansMay 26th 2005 Trade: Stealing from the poorApr 22nd 1999This modest push for "reciprocity" is deeply controversial.

What is taking place and what the police and their supporters are largely reacting to is a modest push for sensible law enforcement reforms from groups as diverse as Campaign Zero, Koch Industries, the Cato Institute, The Leadership Conference, and the ACLU (my employer).

For example, modest pushing of the tongue toward the incisors in a closed mouth results in scalp potentials that have a strong gradient between the mastoid region and frontal scalp areas and may be mistakenly similar to the slow-wave cognitive potentials (Vanhatalo, Voipio, Dewaraja, Holmes & Miller, 2003).

A modest merchandising push followed — dolls, clothes and MP3 players — and last month Disney introduced a Fairies attraction at its domestic theme parks.

Lehman Brothers economist Drew Matus sees a fundamental slump in consumer spending lasting through the first quarter of 2009, save for a modest early summer push spearheaded by government rebate checks (don't believe everyone who denies an intent to spend those checks, he argues, since people tend to answer such surveys with socially acceptable answers).

Stocks ended little changed but modest gains pushed the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index to a new 15-month high.

If you ask somebody, do you want change, he will say that my neighbour needs it, but not me .To Mr Reinfeldt's satisfaction, the modest reforms pushed through by Mr Borg are already producing more jobs.

The vote to replace the measure offered by Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, in favor of a more modest provision pushed by Mr. Levin, the Democrat who is chairman of the Armed Services Committee, did not break down along gender lines: of the seven women on the committee, three, including a fellow Democrat, Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, sided with Mr. Levin.