Some writers have taken government jobs, finding the steady paycheck and modest responsibilities conducive to their work.
That's how Hoover's initially modest Responsibilities Program ballooned into a vast and illegal national campaign of asinine, time-wasting, career-wrecking surveillance, targeting campus intellectuals who left to their own devices would have become harmless members of the mainstream.
Or should he be paid a modest special-responsibility allowance?
But the new recruits have only modest teaching responsibilities; especially in big undergraduate courses, the burden of teaching falls on graduate student instructors and adjunct faculty, higher education's replaceable parts.
With citizenship goes some modest amount of responsibility.
Mr. Van Zandt is not modest in claiming some responsibility for this revival, but he cannot claim it all.
Critics maintain that Dennett's kind of free will, with its modest idea of "enough" responsibility, autonomy and control, is not really enough after all.
Her pre-recorded voice, which came through the loudspeaker in slightly accented, melodic sentences that came to sharp, uncertain ends, went on to explain how as an ultra-Orthodox Jew, she was taught that being modest was her greatest responsibility as a woman.
The new plan will increase the scope of Mr. Pittman's role substantially and give a modest increase in operational responsibilities to Mr. Parsons, as well, who directly supervised only Warner Music and Warner Brothers at Time Warner.
This is because most Open University students already have established jobs and because of their work and family responsibilities and modest economic circumstances are unable to leave their locations to attend an on-campus university fulltime.
