Sentence examples for modest setting of from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

A burgeoning financial crisis will prevent the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from delivering on most of a series of promised service expansions — but a more modest set of changes aimed at easing subway crowding is still in the works, officials said on Wednesday.

Perhaps it's too much to hope for the beginning of the end of conglomeration in the book world or for a return to a more modest set of expectations.

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.

Preoccupied with ensuring that bankruptcies and accounting problems do not cause disruptions for telephone and Internet users, he proposed a modest set of recommendations that mixed some new regulatory oversight with some loosening of the existing rules.

All in all, a modest set of changes, but the biggest evolution since this version of the site débuted in March, 2007, and we think it adds up to a significant improvement.

It began as a modest set of private rooms above a restaurant in Old Compton Street, central London, swelling to become a select clutch of exclusive members' clubs beloved by celebrities from London to New York, Berlin to Miami.