Sentence examples for modest to make from inspiring English sources

Otherwise the reward for doing the right things will remain too modest to make sufficient difference.

But these moves seem belated and too modest to make up for the company's steadily declining cash flow.

It suffered criticism that it was inefficient and slow and its funding too modest to make a difference.

He is not even 40, he has only spent a couple of years in the top flight and he's far too modest to make a fuss.

Other critics claimed that the emission reductions called for in the protocol were too modest to make a detectable difference in global temperatures in the subsequent several decades, even if fully achieved with U.S. participation.

But some human rights groups called the changes too modest to make a difference, contending that Mr. Calderón's strong-arm tactics, while popular with a public lacking faith in police agencies, have yielded scores of disappearances, unlawful killings and other abuses at the hands of the military.

He has the wind in his sails now, which permits him to act modest and to make himself as small as possible.

Universal protected itself by spending a relatively modest $30 million to make the movie.

Successive governments have passed modest reforms to make doing business cleanly a little easier.

Legendary Entertainment spent a relatively modest $38 million to make the film, which performed best among older men, the hardest demographic for studios to reach.

MARIJANA CONDIC and Lisa Leipziger, friends in Frankfurt, had a modest mission: to make espadrilles that were sturdier than the Spanish styles they love to wear.