Sentence examples for more modest steps from inspiring English sources

In the near term, experts say, more modest steps could be taken to protect forests.

A few more modest steps, with quick and measurable effects, are a better way to proceed.

His coaches were thrilled with more modest steps, like how he aptly audibled at the line of scrimmage.

Rather, he proposes more modest steps to insure a dozen different groups, including workers between jobs, people ages 55 to 64, uninsured parents of children eligible for Medicaid, legal immigrants and low-income women with breast cancer.

They are also plotting more modest steps, including lower-level contacts between Israelis and Palestinians, which they hope will stabilize the situation while they try to figure out a Plan B. "We have tremendous respect for President Abbas and the leadership he has offered the Palestinian people for decades," Mrs. Clinton said Thursday.

The White House said that the president was considering more modest steps, such as banning repeat drunken drivers from the roads, prohibiting televisions mounted on the steering wheel and curbs on lethal car accessories that serve no transportation purpose — such as bayonets mounted on the front and back bumpers.

This would be a much more modest step than replacing dollars with SDRs as the global key currency.

In mid-June, under pressure from property tycoons, it took a more modest step -- pulling off the market 16,000 subsidized apartments it had planned to sell.

Instead of rejecting an ad outright, however, they can take a more modest step: They can insist on edits for the sake of accuracy.

Alternatively, the Fed could take the more modest step of announcing that it intends to hold short-term rates near zero beyond 2014.

The proposals have ranged from leasing as much as 100percentt of a lottery system to a private company to the more modest step of allowing a private company to have a share of future profits above a certain threshold.