Sentence examples for modest say from inspiring English sources
When requests are modest — say, someone hoping to moonlight as an emergency medical technician — approval can be swift.
They could be restricted to a modest (say 10percentt) interest in any pool buying assets from other banks.
And if Mr. Obama gets a bounce that's a bit better than modest — say, he leads in the national polls by in the neighborhood five or six points next week, as Mr. Bush did following his convention in 2004 — Mr. Romney's position will start to look fairly grim.
Keeping the benefits modest, say a potential benefit duration of six months and a replacement rate of 50percentt, would reinforce work incentives.
Instead, the Committee is just going to roll into the bill the modest "say on pay" provisions the House already passed in July.
The stakes are modest, say a 3.
"Her nature is modest," said her mother, Ms. Cusack.
"We're just trying to do something modest," said Benjamin Lee, Twitter's legal counsel.
The price will be modest, says Adrian Si, the marketing manager at Toyota behind the project.
The expense of doing away with lifetime limits is fairly modest, said Mr. Wildsmith, the actuary.
"We thought it would be very modest," said Ms. Merians, who is a photographer and sculptor.
