Sentence examples for modestly smaller from inspiring English sources

While Barclays secured a modestly smaller penalty, the bank still paid record fines.

Mr. Obama is calling for modestly smaller military spending, at 2.4 percent of economic output, compared with the House Republicans' 2.7 percent.

Big Ben and the station clock bear many similarities: same dial, same use of 24-karat gold leaf — but the station clock, while modestly smaller, bears the once-again proud name of the brand.

When George W. Bush proposed a huge, regressive tax cut in 2001, Snowe, sitting at the heart of a decisive block of centrists, used her leverage to support the passage of a modestly smaller and less regressive version.

So, we choose (rho_{k}) for the next iteration to be only modestly smaller than (rho_{k}) to avoid expensive implementations in the next iteration.

B149 plants were also modestly smaller than wild-type and were slightly chlorotic.

Modestly small and honestly square, each is unique, offering a glossy, tactile image far different from the pixels of cyberspace or the matte finish of Xerox reproductions.

The latter may sound like a modestly small figure, but it was the first time Evine had posted a net income since 2007, with a rocky stock price to match.

These suburbs started modestly with small homes and slender public investments, and they passed these humble trappings down through time.

The enormous success of the 914 had transformed Xerox from a modestly successful small company into a major corporation.

Its losers – the rest of us – now want to reduce our losses modestly by small increases in taxes on the super-rich (but not, or not yet, on corporations).