Admired by all who knew her for her grace, modesty, concern for others and charitable deeds.
Associates say his near-invisibility is owed to a genuine modesty and concerns over the security of his family because of his wealth.
At a similar moment of ascendant nationalism in the 1940s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration forged a different path on the exact same issue, an approach characterized by modesty and concerns about suppressing valuable dissent while unwittingly stoking vigilantism.
Mr. Weberman, an unlicensed therapist, testified during his trial that boys and girls — though not his accuser — were regularly referred to him by a Hasidic modesty committee concerned about what it viewed as inappropriate attire and behavior.
He contends that if a subject — famous or otherwise — is uncomfortable with a portrait, it is probably not really because of modesty, or concern about appearances, but because the subject has not picked the right painter.
But if diligence, modesty, civility and concern for his staff were the sole requirements for the job he held for four years under President Bill Clinton, Warren Christopher would be without peer.
Some health care providers maintain medical procedures staffing policies sensitive to modesty and harassment concerns.
But aside from modesty or practicality concerns, there are very few clothing rules in my house.
In some cases, it concerns modesty, about not wearing jewelry for faith or environmental reasons.
The Brooklyn shopkeeper was already home for the night when her phone rang: a man who said he was from a neighborhood "modesty committee" was concerned that the mannequins in her store's window, used to display women's clothing, might inadvertently arouse passing men and boys.
