December then saw Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signing an unprecedented defense budget of US$43.6 billion, indicating that his government was not going to continue its normally modest military stance in the face of a more aggressive China and North Korea.
Unillustrated but cited are "his 1938-45 covers for Direction, a small anti-fascist magazine of art and culture whose modest budget and political stance lent themselves to bold simplified forms in limited colors".
Extraordinary vision and energy issued from a small man, of modest appearance and mild-mannered stance, head often cocked to one side and bushy eyebrows, with a friendly but questioning smile.
Our overweight stance in equities is modest in light of the fluid situation in Europe and an unusually wide divergence between the potential outcomes of the crisis.
He went with it, as his modest outlook of the scene and stance amongst it kept him exceptionally connected to it.
Writer-director Olegario Barrera maintains too modest a pose and too leisurely a stance to succeed fully with his little allegory.
Just days ago, in the wake of New York Fashion Week, Ms. Goff softened her stance, having noticed an encouraging, if modest, uptick in black models on the catwalks.
Unfortunately, in climate policy most governments choose a more progressive stance while talking and deciding, but a more modest one when acting.
The action by GoDaddy, which has not been known in the past for taking a strong stance on Internet freedom, contrasts sharply with the modest responses from other companies.
Their stance, furthermore, does not void the alternative possibility that modest deflections from controls are statistical artifacts and that strong stimulation is actually hormesis.
