Sentence examples for modest status from inspiring English sources

Their modest status was exposed well before the end of the first half.

Now Atlantic City risks losing even its modest status as a regional gambling center.

Mr. Pilla's little Alfa, as pristine as it is, appeals to him in part because of its modest status.

The bankers in Zurich clearly support the opera, for the company pays handsomely to attract world-class singers and conductors, despite the city's relatively modest status on the cultural radar.

The city also was important as a naval base, especially under the Fāṭimids and the Mamlūks, but already it was contracting in size in line with its new, more modest status.

Some analysts view as brinkmanship the Palestinians' stated intention of going first to the Security Council for a vote, rather than to the General Assembly; this would give Palestine a more modest status in the United Nations as an observer, nonmember state.

The leading figures in the Greek revival were not gorgeously robed bishops or clever theologians, but a handful of monastic teachers, of very modest origins and humble status, who were revered because of the discerning advice they gave to anybody who sought them out.

Under his leadership, the San Francisco Opera shed its modest regional status to become an international company with a bold, innovative repertory.

Princeton University razed Palmer Stadium, opened in 1914, after the 1996 season, and replaced it with a modern arena more suited to the modest cultural status of football today.

According to the National Institute for Prevention and Health Education INPESS), owners of only cell phones would be of more modest social status than the landline owners at the time of the ESCALE study (Beck et al. 2007), whereas in the ESCALE study, the highest socioeconomic categories were more exposed than the more modest categories.

It viewed the Congress-led mainstream movement for dominion status modest and the latter's constitutional methods as soft.