Sentence examples for more modest efforts from inspiring English sources

His more modest efforts merely charm.

Yet even the current, much more modest efforts to build up those forces are floundering.

In response to those deficits, there was a lot of spending reduction plus some more modest efforts to increase revenue.

Over the last two years, Mr. Cuomo has won approval for more modest efforts to reduce the borrowing.

Brazilian officials in turn, partially inspired by the Argentine example across the border, engaged in more modest efforts to use national park policy in the development of their side of the border.

Based on one of Stephen King's more modest efforts, meaning under 500 pages and pounds, "The Mist" takes place in a small Maine town where everyone seems to know everyone else by name or by sight.

Deputy Mayor Robert M. Harding also expressed support for the plan, although he saw it as a more modest effort.

For now, the aim here is a more modest effort at localized control, but even that will not be easy.

I.B.M.'s research has been supported by a more modest effort financed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon office that supports futuristic science and technology.

The leaked McChrystal plan argues both that we must and that we can, and that a more modest effort "will likely result in failure".

Some advocates of federal action on technology issues hold out hope that a more modest effort to regulate online political advertising could advance.