Sentence examples for modest undertakings from inspiring English sources

He says his theme shows are very modest undertakings because there is no great scholarship or expense involved.

Activities that would, in the course of ordinary life, count as modest or private undertakings acquire a special significance when they become the basis of book proposals.

"It can't work," said Daniel F. Evans Jr., the chief executive of Clarian Health Partners, whose Clarian Cardiovascular Center is the most modest of the undertakings, at $30 million, and the only one built within a full-service hospital.

Houses will be more modest, and great human undertakings – theatres, stadiums and cinemas – will be even bigger because everyone will have access to them.

The book that accompanied the exhibition is a heavyweight tome, but is, compared to some of Schmidt's other undertakings, relatively modest.

He was indeed a man devoured by a passion for painting and not for pecuniary gain, for he committed himself to grandiose undertakings for exceedingly modest remuneration.

Enormous undertakings followed.

But joint undertakings have failed before.

Those are traditionally much riskier undertakings".

New industrial undertakings, however, also appeared.

All of these were risky, difficult undertakings.