Sentence examples for modest set of from inspiring English sources

Instead we approached this negotiation with a modest set of proposals.

That's an optimistic assessment of what is, given the scale of the challenge, a relatively modest set of proposals.

Team Dennis Conner's base is a modest set of steel sheds with a hospitality tent left over from the last Cup campaign.

Unless the economy starts to recover powerfully enough to cut America's high unemployment levels, this modest set of policies will seem footling.

Rob Manfred, the clubs' chief labor lawyer, said that the clubs had entered these negotiations with "a modest set of proposals" and that they wanted only to create "a speed bump" for the biggest-spending teams.

Working from a modest set of learned works published since the mid-1980's, Wills assembles a condensed history of the papacy designed to culminate thematically as well as chronologically in the Second Vatican Council.

The apparently modest setting of Muhammad Hussain's chocolate stall in Accrington market contrasts with his vision, and with the potential scale of his Lancashire-based business.

Behind Mr. Silver, the flamboyant producer of some of the biggest action hits of the last 30 years, is the modest set for one of his current films, an R-rated comedy with no stars, almost no budget and — for now — no title.

They perform their functions with a remarkably modest set: One redox state of the zinc ion and nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur ligands from the side chains of histidine, glutamate/aspartate, and cysteine, respectively.

Those shows strip down to modest sets (three of them use brick walls as backdrops) and, in many cases, small casts, the better to show off their considerable natural assets.

Then again, maybe that is a function of their modest setting, in one of Chelsea's smaller galleries; you have to wonder what would happen if Mr. Hornby had the budget and space of, say, Matthew Day Jackson at Hauser & Wirth.