Sentence examples for of modest attainments from inspiring English sources

Klemperer, a scholar of modest attainments, turns out to be a journalist of rare perception.

The fact, noted by Aviv, that he comes from a family of modest educational attainment makes his swift ascent through elite academe—Harvard University bachelor's degree, UC Berkeley Ph.D. in 3.5 years followed by a tenure-track job, and tenure by 30 all the more impressive.

"Perhaps no man liked so many things and disliked so few as Walt Whitman," he wrote, "and I at least aspire to the same modest attainment".

Her childhood was one of modest pleasures.

DEPARTMENT OF MODEST PROPOSALS parodying Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal".

But he's the epitome of modest.

The return of Modest Mouse.

Schwartzman: I'm kind of modest.

Globalisation has undermined the manufacturing base of most of the high-income economies, costing millions of jobs and leading to stagnant or falling living standards for a large part of the workforce, especially those with basic skills and modest education attainment.

In such cases, economic sanctions often provide a policy alternative with modest expectations of goal attainment at relatively low cost, while military force involves a higher probability of goal attainment accompanied by much higher costs.

Maier, the author of an earlier biography of Benjamin Spock, thinks the world of his subjects' attainments.