Sentence examples for only a modest step from inspiring English sources

Unofficial translations suggest that this law is only a modest step forwards.

They cast the deal as only a modest step in the right direction.

Even President Obama, a principal force behind the final deal, said the accord would take only a modest step toward healing the Earth's fragile atmosphere.

The tests represent only a modest step toward centralized oversight of nuclear energy facilities in Europe, where member states zealously guard control over their energy industries.

Though only a modest step it is an important one, as Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, underlined this week.

The plan would be only a modest step, but it would constitute an important acknowledgment that the union's sacred cow -- a system of agricultural supports that pays earthly cows a $2 daily subsidy -- is not untouchable.

But as a disarmament measure, it is a modest step, entailing a reduction of only 30 percent from the former limit — and some of that reduction is accomplished by the way the warheads are counted, not by their destruction.

It may seem a modest step.

The hog manure is a modest step, though.

He says Hunt's proposals represent a modest step forward.

The State Department took a modest step on Wednesday to cleaning up a major embarrassment.