Sentence examples for modest term from inspiring English sources

But given his age, even a modest term could amount to a life sentence for the slightly stooped, white-bearded Bulger.

It succeeds on these modest terms.

A handful of competitors found room to express themselves within that framework, mostly in modest terms.

The question is whether the new, smaller GM can succeed on its own more modest terms.

Xerox licensed its Ethernet patents at modest terms, ensuring that it won the standards battle with competing technologies at the time, promoted by companies like I.B.M.

She was in search of more modest terms to describe a set of feelings which were dark and complex and must be rendered faithfully.

Despite the iconic status that Kennedy has, my dad always spoke about him in personable, modest terms, as someone he admired, someone who had inspired his politics.

The simplicity of this presentation, accompanied only by John Bell on piano, makes it a disarming experience if taken on its own modest terms.

Recording over children's songs and Beijing Opera performances on the cassettes in his guarded compound just north of Tiananmen Square, Mr. Zhao describes in generally modest terms his tenure as prime minister and then party secretary.

Mr. Flosdorff portrayed it in more modest terms, saying it was among a number of proposals that could be discussed by Ms. Von der Leyen and other top European leaders at a conference in Paris May 28.

If the narrow biographical focus of "The Iceman" prevents it from being a great crime movie, on its own more modest terms it is an indelible film that clinches Mr. Shannon's status as a major screen actor.