Sentence examples for modest swing from inspiring English sources

He augmented his sturdy, modest swing with so many extra features – tighter grip, looser grip, loose knees, stiff knees – that it came to resemble an overladen jalopy of the Jed Clampett type.

The modest swing towards putting economics before the environment is somewhat more marked among Tory supporters and backers of minor parties, and it could be that Conservative high command fear that excessively green positions could see the party surrendering some rightwing voters to Ukip.

That being said, Microsoft's mobile Edge browser is taking a modest swing at it.

"Even modest swings out of fossil fuels into clean energy will have a dramatic effect.

The result would be to concentrate campaigning in small swing states, where a big payoff could be had for a relatively modest investment of resources.

That would leave Salmond needing a modest 5% swing to win.

More disturbingly, within an hour it is announced that the bellwether seat of Nuneaton, requiring a modest 2.3 per cent swing for a Labour victory, has remained in Tory hands with a three-point shift in the opposite direction.

Thus, just as the hypothesis of a fading Romney bounce was damaged on Friday, so was the idea (which we critiqued in an earlier post) that his gains would be more modest in the swing states.

Uggla, a power hitter with a modest career average, swung at most pitches near the strike zone.

ACCOMMODATIONS 5 houses and 1 apartment complex NUMBER OF BEDROOMS 30 to 40 STYLE New England modest AMENITIES Porch swings, welcome baskets FORMER RESIDENT Clark Gesner Actors stay in the single-family dwellings that make up most of the housing stock in Weston, a village of about 575 people.

In general, the impression conveyed by the state polls is a fairly modest bounce in the swing states.