Sentence examples for more modest role from inspiring English sources
The Joyce will have a more modest role.
Pearce said that she would remain in the party in a more modest role.
Many Americans would be fine with a more modest role in world affairs.
In Ms. Walter's view, computers will probably play a more modest role in reducing lines for several more years.
She sees a more modest role for it, as "a practical way of ensuring that the class functions properly".
As has been the case with imperial powers down the ages, the United States will find it extraordinarily difficult to accept a more modest role.
In the late nineties, Baldwin began to take leading roles in smaller films, and (at last) in comic films — most notably in "State and Main," directed and written by David Mamet — as well as more modest roles in big studio productions.
Steps such as this muted religious issues in politics, while on the whole relegating organized religion to a more modest public role.
Americans elected George W. Bush, who called for a more modest U.S. role in the world and got the president who drove the disastrous invasion of Iraq.
It seems more likely that Lin, who has a degree in economics, will ultimately settle into a more modest nightly role.
But now, after a decade of enormous costs in blood and treasure, and visible successes against Al Qaeda, the nation is again insisting on a more modest global role.
