Sentence examples for modest venture from inspiring English sources

What started out as a modest venture, overnight became the hottest act to hit New York.

The success of this seemingly modest venture shows that it does not take much to freshen up the protocols of classical music and entice audiences.

Starting on Saturday night, the Met will be trying out another, more modest venture with its HD series, without the live element.

In 1982 he founded - initially as a modest venture - the company Newman's Own, producing products such as pasta sauces based on his own home recipes.

Today, even a modest venture requires investment partners, marketing plans and an intense competitive drive, to say nothing of higher prices on the menu.

When David Thomson, in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film," describes "Inferno," a Robert Ryan picture of 1953, as "a modest venture, handicapped by 3D," is he revealing an unjust prejudice, or a bitter truth of the time?

In contrast to these big fish, smaller businessmen dabbled in modest ventures in their ancestral villages to help lift relatives out of poverty.

"They know which tricks work," says Madhudusan Gupta of Gartner, a research firm, "and they are very strong with their marketing gimmicks".Flush with this domestic success, Bharti has for years harboured international ambitions that extend far beyond its modest ventures in the Seychelles, Guernsey and Jersey.

In April they sold their joint fixed-line telephone business, retaining a modest mobile venture.

Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three out of four stars saying, "By the end of this modest, strange venture, Leto made me believe it was worth being forced to hang out on the sidewalk with this man, if only to get a creeping sense of what that might've been like".

But compared to those companies, Yard Club has received a relatively modest amount of venture investment.