Sentence examples for modest seeking from inspiring English sources

The vocal performances are lively without being showy — Craig Ferguson is a particularly fine Owl — and the film as a whole is decidedly modest, seeking not to reboot or update the Hundred Acre Wood, but rather to brighten it up a bit and get it back to how it used to be.

Modest sought out a radiologist to review the images of the liver mass with him.

Well-heeled visitors stream into the modest building, seeking audiences with him or his advisers.

Its revenue-raising ideas are relatively modest, initially seeking an additional $100 million in annual sales.

Not he.The budget is therefore a modest thing, seeking to deliver a grab-bag of fairly cheap policy measures in the hope of winning votes (see Bagehot).

Not he.The budget is therefore a modest thing, seeking to deliver a grab-bag of policy measures at minimal fiscal cost.

Tricking the taxman is now widely considered a national pastime in Germany, with the number of tax advisers having risen sharply over the past decade, as those on even modest earnings seek to find a potential loophole in the sprawling tax code.

Still, until just last week, when the White House proposed to add $100 million to the S.E.C. budget, Mr. Bush's budget staff had fiercely resisted efforts to significantly enlarge its "zero growth" spending blueprint for the agency beyond its current level of $467 million, to finance pay increases ordered by Congress, or to even provide most of the relatively modest increases sought by Mr. Pitt.

This modest study sought to evaluate the process and impact of one Health Visitor's use of infant massage.

Other approaches are more modest, and seek only to bring general relativity in line with quantum theory, without necessarily invoking the other interactions.

All of which is a pretty good reason to do something like index Social Security benefits to the actual cost of living for seniors, or lift the $113,700 cap on income that is taxed for Social Security -- which are basically the modest reforms sought by those who want to "expand Social Security".