This morning, Labour is announcing modest but welcome reforms to the private rented sector.
For now, though, the oil bulls have been discredited, and the rest of us have received a modest, but welcome, holiday present.
The overall gain is modest, but welcome in a business in which piracy, economic weakness and digital competition have steadily eroded what was once Hollywood's core source of income — the rental and sale of DVDs.
It is a modest but welcome start for an effort that could transform our understanding of how the brain works and help researchers find new ways to treat and prevent brain disorders like epilepsy and Alzheimer's.
Still, the developments, however modest, are welcome.Future generations of the elderly will be more comfortable wielding smartphones and other gizmos to aid their memory, and there is much promise in the so-called internet of things, in which home appliances and other everyday objects are embued with network smarts.
It would have broken the link between subsidy and production, tying farm aid more closely to rural conservation and most important reducing the extent to which the CAP dumps farm goods outside the EU, which drives down world prices at great cost to poor-country farmers.How has this modest but welcome plan fared?
This progress, while modest, is welcome.
Spookiness rounded out the top five in the box office, with "A Haunted House 2" drawing a modest but welcome $9.1 million.
We met late at night in a conference room of the modest Hotel Welcome, a crossroads for leaders traveling through the area.
But even modest growth is welcome news.
