Sentence examples for modest to avoid from inspiring English sources

Growth should reach 2.5%.The euro zone's goals are more modest: to avoid a third recession in seven years.

Don't you think future Ponzi schemers will take a page from Madoff's playbook and keep their returns relatively modest to avoid raising red flags? A. I doubt it.

Its aim is more modest: to avoid big misalignments in currencies, and the trade frictions and other costs that go with them.

Be modest to avoid sounding arrogant.

Instead he tried to reach a much more modest deal to avoid a fiscal crisis by extending the expiring tax cuts for incomes under $1 million.

Asking them to defer next year's 3percentt raise and to adjust future medical co-payments will be harder, but their benefits are very generous and they should agree to modest rollbacks to avoid layoffs.

Mr. Kluger claimed that he had an agreement with his co-conspirators to limit trading to modest amounts to avoid detection, and that he was unaware of the outsize profits Mr. Bauer generated from the tips.

He urged House members to return to the Capitol to put together at least a modest deal to avoid the more than a half-trillion dollars in automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to begin in January.

He was among a team of nine engineers sent on what one rebel official, Alamin Belhaj, called "a secret mission," driving to the southern desert in modest cars to avoid drawing attention in areas still under Qaddafi control.

Therefore, policy interventions should be kept at very modest levels to avoid large fluctuations.

With a political perspective, in addition to the highly volatile structure, the long memory characteristics of petrol prices requires that the economic policy interventions should be kept at the modest levels to avoid persistent impacts of shocks.