Sentence examples for modest swings from inspiring English sources

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

That's a very different situation from a decade ago, when even modest swings in the price of oil could send airlines deep into the red or to record profits.

Voting results after seven of the deadliest mass shootings show a modest swing in favor of Democratic candidates.

So we have the crisis, a modest swing in public attitudes, but if the congressional votes on the bailouts are any indication, the Republicans haven't take that last step.

In this case, Caryl thinks the global economic struggles of the last few years may lead to a modest swing back of the pendulum, but he cannot quite envision dramatic changes in the offing.

A Washington Post analysis of voting results shows a similar trend in communities that recently experienced large mass shootings: a modest swing toward Democratic candidates, who often champion gun-control laws, with Parkland's three-point shift at the median.

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.

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

The first wave of these letters sought to compel companies to make recovery of relatively modest short-swing profits supposedly realized by officers who exercised the net settlement rights granted to them by their company equity awards.