They are both modest, because they have felt weakness, and aggressive, because they know how hard it is to change anything.
With systolic heart failure, modest physical exertion causes pain, weakness, or other symptoms indicative of inadequate cardiac performance.
We hypothesise that this decision support package introduced uncertainty about the overall effectiveness of the available treatment options, both in terms of their modest effect sizes and the weakness of the underpinning evidence, thus reducing expectation of benefit.
National-greatness liberalism, the argument goes, was the foreign-policy signature of Democratic political predominance from Truman forward; any step away, toward more modest ambitions, is seen as McGovernite weakness destined for defeat.
The bank may have intended this to signal its resolve, but markets seemed to have interpreted the modest intervention as a sign of weakness, creating pressure for a bolder move.
Given the institutional weakness, inadequate infrastructure and modest skills base in many of the world's poorest places, even rock-bottom wages there may be insufficient to attract much manufacturing.That is a distressing prospect.
What is more, if Tendulkar triumphed amid adversity, conquering the world from a position of weakness and carrying a modest side on his shoulders, his successors dominate from a position of strength.
Whatever their respective strengths and weaknesses, one thing these modest strategies have suggested is that some of the central features of transcendental arguments outlined above do not fit arguments of this less ambitious sort.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (AP) — Consumers went shopping for clothes, furniture and electronics products last month, giving a modest boost to retail sales despite continued weakness in the demand for new cars.
