Mr. Ralfe said the quotas would be modest, representing less than 10percentt of current supplies.
But total annual funding of $12 billion is really very modest, representing around 0.033% (three cents per $100) of the donor countries' GNP.
The possible deployment of the laser, though its geographic range is modest, represents a striking turnaround for an antimissile technology that was criticized as unworkable in the Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980's.
Taken together those steps, while modest, represent a significant shift for Japan, which had resisted repeated calls from the United States to become a true regional power for fear that doing so would move it too far from its postwar pacifism.
Our estimates of the number of advantageous changes are modest, representing 0.5% of the nonsynonymous mutations and 14% of the nonsynonymous substitutions.
The modest gain represented the first time Yahoo's quarterly revenue has increased since the third quarter of 2008.
Signed for around £1.5m from Chelsea last summer, the Dutchman's arrival for such a modest sum represented quite a coup - not to mention a ringing endorsement of the club's continental style recruitment system masterminded by the football director, Lee Congerton.
This response has had some success in keeping up minority enrollments, but at the cost of an even more serious compromise of academic standards than the relatively modest concession represented by affirmative action itself.
Their total - albeit modest - represented something of a recovery after they slipped to 33-4, a collapse initiated when Porterfield hooked his first delivery to Mitchell Starc at fine-leg.
Each significant association has a very modest effect, representing a small share of the genetic variance affecting disease risk.
It's a modest number, representing only about two million viewers in that demographic category.
