Sentence examples for modest so that from inspiring English sources

"But they're very modest so that they don't exclude the African-Americans," he said.

Despite regulations designed to keep banks' ambitions modest so that none are too big to fail, today's groups are larger than ever.

The technical resource to support it in its current form is now relatively modest, so that in principle it could be forked or continued (the "Dr. Who model of OS [59]) were the current authors to become inactive.

THE British death-toll in Iraq has been mercifully modest so far, but that may soon change.

However, the level of inhibition observed for human MxA was fairly modest, so we considered that the NDV assay was not a sufficiently rigorous test.

The effect size of the mean difference in HbA1c between these groups was modest, so we speculate that the inclusion of nonparticipants might have strengthened the associations found in our study.

But its goals are so modest, so tiny, so timid that fulfillment is exactly what it does not provide.

What if an author put forth goals for his fiction so intelligent yet modest, so comprehensive yet dignified, that the reader would not — could not — forget them?

Ms. Kirk, who bears a strong resemblance to Anne Heche, is so good, so believably modest, so full of conviction that she almost makes up for the unfortunate range of acting abilities around her.

It is interesting that so modest, so resolutely un-self-aggrandizing a writer as Wolff should be so adept at capturing the nuances of authorial vanity.

Now suppose that in a year the economy grows by a modest 1.8%, so that there is an extra $1,000 to go around each month.