Sentence examples for modest represents from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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 2012 increase, though relatively modest, still represents a raise for most of those who inhabit the corner office (and whose companies had filed the data by the end of March).

"The Village," reportedly budgeted at a relatively modest $60 million, represents one of the last chances by the film's backer, the Walt Disney Company, to salvage something from a dismal summer of underperforming films and its refusing to allow its Miramax Films unit to handle the hugely successful Michael Moore film "Fahrenheit 9/11".

I don't really like gold, but a modest position represents a hedge against all my other beliefs.

The modest increase represents the annual adjustment for inflation.

Although this loss is modest, it represents a total social cost of 1.0 billion euro per year or 2.9 euro year per person averaged over the entire population (corresponding to three days of additional morbidity and mortality in an average life), and to 150 euro per year for a person exposed to drinking water exceeding 25 mg/L NO3.

Each significant association has a very modest effect, representing a small share of the genetic variance affecting disease risk.