Sentence examples for modest step was from inspiring English sources

The modest step was a considerable breakthrough for the court.

A modest step was taken yesterday in Geneva, where Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the foreign ministers of Russia, China, Britain and France urged India and Pakistan to refrain from further testing and open negotiations with each other.

The relatively modest step is likely to reflect the close trade ties between the two countries despite longstanding political tensions.

And modest steps are no longer an option.

Only in a handful of places have modest steps been taken to prepare.

This approach suggests that only modest steps are justified to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if the future benefits of emissions reductions are discounted at a rate equal to the market rate of return on capital assets with typical investments.

But when Mr. Trimble, who is also head of the Ulster Unionist Party, addressed the Sinn Fein leader by name, another modest historic step was taken in the five-year-old peace effort.

One modest first step is incorporating seafood's carbon footprint into sustainability rating standards.

In a legislative hearing last year, the lawmaker described it as a "deliberately modest step". "We're not stopping drilling; we're not screwing up the permitting process," Wieckowski said.

One modest step would be to make universities investigate whether donors are implicated in abuses or corruption before accepting their money.

That journey will eventually lead to Wolfgang Rihm and Kaija Saariaho, but this first step was more modest: Beethoven's Quartet in F (Op. 59, No. 1) was surrounded by works of Mendelssohn and Schubert, composers who shared his musical language, untroubled by theories of modernist harmony and rhythm.