After a modest wait in Buffalo, then a brief stop in Syracuse, we reached Albany.
That figure is artificially depressed on a ratio basis, given that this time last year saw the death of Windows XP, which drove a spate of Of course, with Windows 10 just days out, Microsoft could be suffering from modest wait-until-new-stuff-is-out syndrome on the demand side of things.
They don't brag about how great they are or show off; instead, they act modest and wait for other people to note their achievements.
If a player is cut from a major league baseball team in spring training, he can usually get a minor league job with another team, earning a modest living while waiting for opportunities to develop.
After 14 years as alt-rock legends in waiting, Modest Mouse's fifth album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, topped the US chart in March.
They talk about spending this year — in modest amounts — while waiting for the prescriptions of the president's commission on debt reduction, which reports, conveniently, a few weeks after the midterm elections.
Since Cooke's return from Columbus, Glassman said he had been putting his client up at a modest hotel while waiting to see if he might land elsewhere, the housing alternative being the couches of Brooklyn friends.
The government, he predicts, will act only if it is leant on by legitimate business lobbies.The best argument for letting in countries like Bulgaria and Romania sooner rather than later is the most modest of all: waiting a few more years would not have done any good.
