They prefer modest rulings that can be accepted by judges (and Americans) who disagree about a great deal".
Timothy Searchinger, senior attorney with the group Environmental Defense, which filed a brief in the case, said that while the ruling "sounds modest and procedural," it actually offered a road map for the court to "strike down environmental rules it doesn't like," because Congress often uses broad language that the court could find insufficiently specific.
It is therefore essential that reliable and sensitive methods of detecting, or ruling out, even modest efficacy of blood-stage vaccines in small clinical trials be established.
Tunisia's ruling party won a modest 98.5% of seats at similar elections in 1995.
Cars from both ends of the scale -- stately Zil and Chaika limousines of the ruling class as well as modest Pobeda and Volga sedans -- appeal to enthusiasts looking for something quite different from commonplace Corvettes and Mustangs.
A meta-analysis of the MMSE concluded that this test has modest accuracy, and is most appropriate for ruling out dementia in a primary care setting.
Spheres like law and politics are scarcely open to women of Ms. Gameel's modest background, noted Fayzah el-Tahnawy, a member of the ruling party and a former member of Parliament from the conservative region of Menya.
Yet these grand goals are coupled with modest methods: the administration appears determined to rely on air power, ruling out the use of ground forces.
After a modest and short-lived revival in popular support in March and April, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) is once again looking into the political abyss.
As shown in Figure 5 A, treatment with anti-TGF-β siRNA alone exhibited a modest inhibitory effect on tumor growth, while control siRNA had no effect at all, ruling out any effect from the delivery vehicle itself.
