NOBEL prizewinners are often modest about their achievements.
It captures the essence of Bawa's often modest but always thoughtful work in over 500 illustrations.
So it reduced entry requirements for such applicants, to take account of their often modest school results.
Those working for international justice and equality are now pitted against fierce defenders of - often modest - privilege.
They tend toward conservatism on social issues, opposing a liberal coalition that includes lapsed Catholics, mainline Protestants of often modest devoutness and growing legions of the avowedly nonreligious.
Instead, these often modest but impeccably cooked and deeply satisfying little dishes come back to haunt you a week later when you urgently want some more.
Its needs are often modest: a new set of teams to bring isolated groups together, some communications tools, a small budget for periodic face-to-face meetings.
If you look hard enough, you can find more sustainable phones and computers than Apple's, but the differences are often modest, as in Samsung phones that are made partly from recyclable materials.
The environmental impact of little gifts is often modest, said Mr. Wackernagel, whose organization calculates the amount of land and water required to produce the resources that an individual, population or business consumes and to absorb the waste it generates.
As a profession we have also been guilty – unwittingly or otherwise – of exaggerating the benefits of medications often perceived as magic pills by patients when their benefits are often modest at best.
Mr. Lawrence's paintings, often modest in size and conceived in narrative series, combined a finely-honed Cubist-inflected painting style, a gift for vivid storytelling and a social consciousness shaped by his memories of growing up in Harlem.
