Sentence examples for modest wording from inspiring English sources

"The modest wording change in the G-7 statement was important," said Peter Hooper, chief economist at Deutsche Bank Securities.

The Microsoft filing yesterday came in response to one by the government on Monday in which the government made a few modest wording changes.

It is extraordinary, given its modest word count, how full and devastating a world is created.

Then again, it's not every day that a modest word game takes on an air of A-list sizzle.

Athill is real and feisty with a great Miss Marple voice and, despite her modest words in the prologue, well up to it.

All heads swiveled when an unassuming woman perched on a folding chair in the corner urged Ms. Rashad to pay attention to a modest word that risked passing without notice in the rush of bantering verse.

"Drop Dead Healthy" submits Mr. Jacobs's body to a two-year, organ-a-month study plan as he pursues the goal of becoming, in his own modest words, "the healthiest man alive".

But the modest word Tent was not congruous with the triumphalist pomp of New Labour, so the first of this government's many idealised economies with the truth was presented to the public.

The apologists of a "just war" will hardly be able to read Sebald's essay without asking themselves whether the adjective in this euphemistic phrase should not be replaced by a more modest word like "justified".

In the guttural, relatively modest word-banks of that splinter of Germanic tribesmen who fell on Britain's east coast after the Romans went back to Rome, there must have been the seeds for this global reach.

But it is the story of Mr. Guerrero's life, told in his own modest words, that is richer and more urgent, particularly when he writes about serving as the sole dove on a draft board during the Vietnam War, which cost him a lucrative 20-year career at House & Garden.