Sentence examples for modest than a from inspiring English sources

"The recovery in the labor market is probably going to be more modest than a lot of people are expecting".

Brahimi's proposal is far more modest than a six-point plan by his predecessor as Syrian envoy, former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.

But Walker admitted his ambitions for this season were rather more modest than a Wales squad call-up.

What is happening now may be far more modest than a revolution.

and Thomas Massie (R-Ky ., is faR-Ky . modest than a Senate effort by Misority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).

The average real decline after a house-price bust has been more modest than after a stockmarket crash (30% over four years against 45% over two-and-and-half years), but at the end of that period GDP had fallen by an average of 8% relative to its previous growth trend, compared with 4% after a share-price bust.

(In fact he's more modest than that; a good Kierkegaardian, he merely says: "I'm in love").

These episodes include a criminal career far more modest than he claimed, an early homosexual relationship with a white businessman, his mother's confinement in a mental hospital for nearly 25 years and secret meetings with leaders of groups as divergent as the Ku Klux Klan and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Overall the 2009 festival will be a bit more modest than last year's, with a budget of $6.2 million, compared with $8.4 million in 2008, The Associated Press reported.

It is a start, albeit a more modest one than a team built around LeBron James.

So what about something to name after Truman, something that's suitably modest — bigger than a balcony, smaller than a train station — and somehow appropriate?