Sentence examples for modest yet important from inspiring English sources

Their project is a modest yet important step to restoring ecological health to the Klamath Basin.

A more modest yet important agreement was signed with India to explore and produce oil and natural gas in southern Iran.

Without a severity assessment tool validated to predict the need for admission in bronchiolitis, unmeasured but uneven distribution of factors that influence disposition can confound a modest, yet important treatment effect.

The gestures are small yet important.

Suddenly, the regular-season dominance will look as meaningless as it is and the Twins will be answering questions about their modest, yet more important, winning streak.

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[18F]afatinib demonstrates a modest, yet statistically significant uptake in A549 cells (Table 1, entry 4).

This is a modest, yet statistically significant (Student's t test, n = 6, P < 0.05), increase.

Another important issue was highlighted by the modest, yet palpable variation in weights across distributional contexts: the issue of reasons for priority to the worse off.

Yet important differences remain.

The results are both appealing and off-putting, sincerely modest yet weirdly and subtly self-aggrandizing.