Sentence examples for not even modest from inspiring English sources

Not even modest efforts to raise the subject get very far.

Not even modest steps toward transitional justice were attempted during the early post-Marcos period, which was marred by repeated military coup attempts.

So, the endgame is not even the modest alleviation of poverty, let alone the arresting of inequality.

Long since reduced to small scattered groups who could not inflict even modest damage on the United States -- assuming that at some future point they might acquire the means and the inclination to do so.

How can we expect a teenager entering a profession (farming and cooking are professions, just as much as law, medicine and media) to value what they do if we won't invest even modest sums in their training?

Not even Huddlestone, more modest than most about his scoring exploits, will have thought that it would take almost three years for that dare to be won.

The settlement with the sixth defendant, Daniel H. Mudd, the former chief executive of Fannie Mae, disclosed in a judicial filing on Aug. 22, did not even reach that modest level of accountability.

Rangers' youth structure - or, to give it its more rightful name, Lewis Macleod - isn't exactly a model for any club, not even one as modest as Felda.

There's not even evidence of modest voter fraud, let alone "widespread," as the president suggests.

It wasn't easy: In socialist India in 1981 Infosys couldn't even get modest bank loans.

It could not even agree on a modest tax incentive for more fuel-efficient buildings.