Sentence examples for modest tasks from inspiring English sources

Our favorite rosés accomplished these modest tasks very well.

Before tackling a new form of energy, he will address slightly more modest tasks: detecting nuclear weapons and diagnosing cancer with his technology.

Students in a 2010 Cornell study had trouble completing modest tasks, like tracking a dot on a screen with a cursor, while listening to a tape of a one-sided conversation, even though they knew the conversation was the focus of the study.

The YMCA have set themselves no modest task.

Then he jogs back to his modest task of covering the defense.

Karl Anton Rickenbacher's accounts from 1986 and 1997 with German radio orchestras are adequate to the modest task.

Its modest task is the collection of 3,300 rebel arms, voluntarily turned in, over a 30-day period.

NEARLY four years ago, a web-based political movement set itself the modest task of "closing the gap between the world we have and world most people everywhere want".

The industry's recovery has been a key goal of Putin's government; just as the Soviet Union needed oil to finance its empire, Putin needs oil for his more modest task, to get Russia back on its feet.

A modest task, then, made no easier by the fact that knowledge is an ever-expanding realm, with plenty of soft spots that do not lend themselves to any sensible computation.

But even this much more modest task is doomed to lead to unsatisfactory results, for there is much confusion perhaps a hopeless confusion about how the terms of the debate should be drawn up.