Sentence examples for modest son from inspiring English sources

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Despite such vague replies, most opinion polls said that his performance in the debate gave him a modest lift.A son of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, he has been on the national stage since early childhood.

"Franklin from the get-go understood that he was a modest man's son but he had powers that rich men's sons didn't have," Michael Zuckerman, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, says.

Billmeyer was a modest man, the son of a railcar manufacturer in York, Pa.

This was a guy who grew up in a modest house, the son of a cop.

He grew up in a modest household, the son of shop owners.

Cranmer is a modest gentleman's son, a careful and pious academic from the tiny village of Aslockton, near Nottingham.

Mr. Radner bought some of it (for "a modest amount," his son said), and inherited the rest when Hardeen died in 1945.

He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in relatively modest surroundings, the son of an automobile insurance salesman and a translator, both regular watchers of "Wall Street Week".

GAZA — From far away, this is how it looks: There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a black man of modest origin, the son of a Muslim.