Sentence examples for modest working from inspiring English sources

For even a modest working majority, they must double their number of seats.

Mr Garcia, by contrast, has a home in a modest, working class section of Chicago.

At Canesso the spotlight is on the "Master of Blue Jeans" (through November 6th), an otherwise unnamed 17th-century Italian painter whose subjects, such as "Portrait of a Young Boy", were modest working people wearing the blue denim manufactured in Genoa.

It was, said Emily Maitlis, the "Basildon moment", recalling that key result in 1992 which helped put John Major back into Downing Street with a modest working majority in the teeth of poll ratings which had consistently pointed the other way.

Here I am, 42, reasonably intelligent, a yearly traveler to Europe, and apart from English, all I can claim in the way of linguistic proficiency is a modest working knowledge of French and a few sparse phrases of travel Italian and high school Spanish.

Poets today have the intellectual resources to accomplish more "modest" work like Bishop's, not Lowell's--hence the rise in Bishop's stock.

Three modest works by Lam are here.

Mr Almgren thinks Amazon will struggle to sell even more modest works.

Here he vaults right over it, with the exception of two modest works by F x Gonz z-Torres and Anne Turyn.

Her modest work has been compared with that of Kurt Schwitters, the master of collages made with modest materials.

In 1998 he told The Los Angeles Times, "I just ran a modest office and did modest work".