Sentence examples for over modest from inspiring English sources

Nor did the European Union succeed in breaking the Greek-Turkish deadlock over how the Union can use NATO military assets to take over modest peacekeeping duties in Macedonia.

In typical configurations, it should beam more than 6Gbps over modest distances.

In practice, this means the strength of an EM source diminishes enormously even over modest distances.

Four weeks after they showed rounded jackets and nip-waist coats in compacted bouclé over modest, side-buttoned dresses, they are hard to forget.

Yet Britain's first formal coalition since World War II has functioned surprisingly well, navigating policy differences, putting in place austerity measures and now presiding over modest economic growth.

Every four years, they come down to Miami, they talk tough, they go back to Washington, and nothing changes in Cuba," Mr. Obama said, speaking over modest applause.

He railed against the notion of "conflict management" — the over-modest goal of much U.S. diplomacy in recent decades.

Both of these refusals were more than mere token rejections of the baubles of privilege – they were genuine reflections of the modest ambitions of an over-modest man.

That was over-modest on his part; for like Beethoven some 200 years later, he soon mastered and exhausted the musical tradition he inherited.

Asked why the war had remained so obscure to so many, Ketcham offered two reasons: One is that the men who fought in 1812 were over-modest about their accomplishments.

A round of applause for the U.K.-made Raspberry Pi microcomputer — which has just passed the 5 million sales mark, some three years after it was first launched with the over-modest goal of selling "a few thousand" Pi over its entire lifetime, as creator Eben Upton has said.